1) Blowing 2) Medical terminology
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In religious and magical practice, insufflation and exsufflation are ritual acts of blowing, breathing, hissing, or puffing that signify variously expulsion or renunciation of evil or of the devil (the Evil One), or infilling or blessing with good (especially, in religious use, with the Spirit or grace of God). In historical Christian practice, su...
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[medicine] Although the majority of a dose of insufflated drug is taken up through the mucous membranes, some enters other parts of the gastrointestinal tract where it may also be absorbed. This is because some of the dose drips down the throat and into the stomach. This effect is commonly referred to as the `drip` and is often unpleasant t...
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• (n.) The breathing upon a person in the sacrament of baptism to symbolize the inspiration of a new spiritual life. • (n.) The act of blowing (a gas, powder, or vapor) into any cavity of the body. • (n.) The act of breathing on or into anything
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(in″sә-fla´shәn) the blowing of a powder, vapor, or gas into a body cavity. a drug administered by this method, especially a powder or aerosol carried into the respiratory passages. perirenal insufflation injection of air around the kidney for radiologic ex...
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In`suf·fla'tion noun [ Latin
insuffatio : confer French
insuffation . See
In- in, and
Sufflation .] The act of breathing on or into anything ; especially:
(a) (R. C. Ch.) The breathing upon a person in the sacrament of baptism to symbolize the inspiration of ...
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Type: Term Pronunciation: in′sŭf-lā′shŭn Definitions: 1. The act or process of insufflating. Synonyms: inhalant4
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In medical terms, insufflation is the blowing of a gas or vapour into a body cavity. The term first came into prominence in connection with the Royal Humane Society founded in 1774, which produced a device called a tobacco resuscitator to blow smoke into the rectum of apparently dead drowning victims and thus revive them. Tobacco resuscitators, bas...
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n] - (medical) blowing air or medicated powder into the lungs (or into some other body cavity) 2. [n] - an act of blowing or breathing on or into something
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noun an act of blowing or breathing on or into something
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