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.
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The result of breathing or blowing into or on.
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The ritual breathing onto the water used for baptism.
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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.
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He was the inventor of the procedure for flexible sigmoidoscopy using insufflation (inflating the sigmoid colon with air) that still is practiced today.