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

It consists of a gourd or turned wooden receptacle acting as wind reservoir, in the side of which is inserted an insufflation tube curved like a swan’s neck or the spout of a tea-pot.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various

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

Sometimes artificial otoliths are produced by the insufflation of various powders which become agglutinated, and are veritable foreign bodies.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)