insufflation

English

Etymology

insufflate +‎ -ion

Noun

insufflation (countable and uncountable, plural insufflations)

1. The action of breathing or blowing into or on.
   • 1902, Henry James, The Wings of the Dove:

     From the oracle the sound did come—or at any rate the sense did, a sense all accordant with the insufflation she had just seen working.

   • 2004, Daniel B. Silver, Refuge in Hell: How Berlin's Jewish Hospital Outlasted the Nazis, page 83:

     He was the inventor of the procedure for flexible sigmoidoscopy using insufflation (inflating the sigmoid colon with air) that still is practiced today.

2. The result of breathing or blowing into or on.
3. The ritual breathing onto the water used for baptism

Translations

action of breathing or blowing into

• Icelandic: innblástur (is) m
• Italian: insufflazione (1,2,3)
• Spanish: insuflación f

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

insufflation f (plural insufflations)

1. insufflation

Further reading

• “insufflation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.