Dictionary

insufflation en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˌɪnsəˈfleɪʃən/ (General-American)
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Etymology

Etymology tree English insufflate Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ion English insufflation From insufflate + -ion.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The action of breathing or blowing into or on.
   • 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. 1902, Henry James, The Wings of the Dove:
   • 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, page 83:
2. (countable, uncountable) The result of breathing or blowing into or on.
3. (countable, uncountable) The ritual breathing onto the water used for baptism.

Forms

Deriveds

hyperinsufflation · autoinsufflation

Translations (6)

ca insuflació (action of breathing or blowing into) · es insuflación (action of breathing or blowing into) · fr insufflation (action of breathing or blowing into) · pt insuflação (action of breathing or blowing into) · it insufflazione (1,2,3) (action of breathing or blowing into) · is innblástur (action of breathing or blowing into)