insufflation
insufflation · insufflations
The action of breathing or blowing into or onThe action of breathing or blowing into or on.
US/ˌɪnsəˈfleɪʃən/
Meaning
3 senses(countable, uncountable)The action of breathing or blowing into or on.
an act of blowing or breathing on or into something
(countable, uncountable)The result of breathing or blowing into or on.
(medicine) blowing air or medicated powder into the lungs (or into some other body cavity)
(countable, uncountable)The ritual breathing onto the water used for baptism.
Translations
4 languagesForms
plural: insufflations| Singular | insufflation |
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Word family
3 related wordsRelatedinsufflate
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.