You searched for:
“insufflated”
insufflate (verb), insufflates; insufflated; insufflating
1. To breathe or to blow into or on: At the baptism, air was insufflated onto the baby to symbolise the benignity of the Holy Spirit.
2. To cure by blowing a gas, vapor, or powder into a body cavity for medical therapy: To provide treatment, a medicative substance was insufflated into the enclosed space of the sinus.
3. Etymology: from the past participle stem of Latin insuffl?re, from in- + suffl?re, "to blow on".
© ALL rights are reserved.
Go to this Word A Day Revisited Index
2. To cure by blowing a gas, vapor, or powder into a body cavity for medical therapy: To provide treatment, a medicative substance was insufflated into the enclosed space of the sinus.
3. Etymology: from the past participle stem of Latin insuffl?re, from in- + suffl?re, "to blow on".
Go to this Word A Day Revisited Index
so you can see more of Mickey Bach's cartoons.
This entry is located in the following unit:
flat-, flatu-
(page 2)