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n. - An act of blowing or breathing on or into something; (medicine) blowing air or medicated powder into the lungs (or into some other body cavity).

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  • The insufflation tube appears to have been left out, and there are no drones to be seen.
  • Where the Gloss again hath it; "Those plagues which are inflicted by the insufflation of the devil, not by the hands of men."
  • And still Ehomba continued his unnatural insufflation, until the last of the blackness had vanished, drawn deep down within himself.
  • A moment later there was a soft, almost inaudible insufflation; the door stirred and moved outward perhaps six inches, then stopped.
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