insufflation

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“The young people marry, the old remember their youth. Drone and melody of village cycle: a little vigour is piped into the heart, an insufflation of warm memory.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 10, 2020

They’re dead — they haven’t got that insufflation, the breath of life.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2012

Forchheimer7 reports 97 cases of whooping cough treated by the insufflation of the quinia muriate; of the 97 cases, 52 were females, 45 males—the youngest three weeks, the oldest nine years old.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

By the air passages.—Medicines are administered to the lungs and upper air passages by insufflation, inhalation, injection, and nasal douche.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.

Sudden respiratory arrest might occur, from pathology or foreign body, necessitating the inserting of the bronchoscope for breathing purposes, and the insufflation of oxygen and amyl nitrite.

From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier