insufflate

Meaning

Verb

  • To breathe or blow into or on.
  • To treat by blowing a gas, vapor, or powder into a body cavity.
  • To inhale (a powder etc.).
  • To exhale upon baptismal water, or the one being baptised, as a ritual act.

Origin

  • From the past participle stem of Latin insufflo, from in- + sufflo.

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