insufflation

Definition

The action of breathing or blowing into or on.

Etymology

From insufflate + -ion.

Example Sentences

• "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."
• "He was the inventor of the procedure for flexible sigmoidoscopy using insufflation (inflating the sigmoid colon with air) that still is practiced today."