insufflation
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From insufflate + -ion.
Noun
[edit]insufflation (countable and uncountable, plural insufflations)
- 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.
- The result of breathing or blowing into or on.
- The ritual breathing onto the water used for baptism
Translations
[edit]action of breathing or blowing into
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French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]insufflation f (plural insufflations)
Further reading
[edit]- “insufflation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.