insufflation
Noun
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Noun
insufflation
- The action of breathing or blowing into or on.
- 2004, Daniel B. Silver, Refuge in Hell: How Berlin's Jewish Hospital Outlasted the Nazis, [http://books.google.ru/books?id=nISChRVDEpMC&lpg=PA83&dq=%22insufflation%20*%20colon%22&hl=ru&pg=PA83#v=onepage&q=%22insufflation%20*%20colon%22&f=false 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.
- 2004, Daniel B. Silver, Refuge in Hell: How Berlin's Jewish Hospital Outlasted the Nazis, [http://books.google.ru/books?id=nISChRVDEpMC&lpg=PA83&dq=%22insufflation%20*%20colon%22&hl=ru&pg=PA83#v=onepage&q=%22insufflation%20*%20colon%22&f=false page 83]
- The result of breathing or blowing into or on.
- The ritual breathing onto the water used for baptism
- Spanish: insuflación
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