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Insufflation

noun
1.
(medicine) blowing air or medicated powder into the lungs (or into some other body cavity).
2.
An act of blowing or breathing on or into something.






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"Insufflation" Quotes from Famous Books



... sectarianism and the jargon of its turbulent schisms, six principle men, peculiar people, seed and snake baptists, supralapsarian dogmatists? Had he found the true church all of a sudden in winding up to the end like a reel of cotton some fine-spun line of reasoning upon insufflation on the imposition of hands or the procession of the Holy Ghost? Or had Lord Christ touched him and bidden him follow, like that disciple who had sat at the receipt of custom, as he sat by the door of some zinc-roofed chapel, yawning and telling over ...
— A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man • James Joyce



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