insufflation
Example Sentences
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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
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.
From The Wings of the Dove, Volume II by James, Henry
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
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.
