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Insufflation   Listen
noun
Insufflation  n.  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 a new spiritual life.
(b)
(Med.) The act of blowing (a gas, powder, or vapor) into any cavity of the body.






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"Insufflation" Quotes from Famous Books



... related to the use of electricity in surgery, a wonderfully fecund branch, but one whose importance was scarcely suspected, notwithstanding the results already obtained through the application of the insufflation pile to galvano-cautery. What the surgeon needed was to see plainly into the cavities of the human body. Trouv found a means of lighting these up with lamps whose illuminating power was fitted for that sort of exploration. This new mode of illumination having been adopted, it was ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 • Various



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