different between insufflation vs insufflate

English

Etymology

insufflate +? -ion

Noun

insufflation (countable and uncountable, plural insufflations)

1. The action of breathing or blowing into or on.
   • 2004, Daniel B. Silver, Refuge in Hell: How Berlin's Jewish Hospital Outlasted the Nazis, page 83

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

2. The result of breathing or blowing into or on.
3. The ritual breathing onto the water used for baptism

Translations

English

Etymology

From the past participle stem of Latin ?nsuffl?re, from in- + suffl?re (“blow on”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ns?fle?t/

Verb

insufflate (third-person singular simple present insufflates, present participle insufflating, simple past and past participle insufflated)

1. (transitive) To breathe or blow into or on.
2. (transitive, medicine) To treat by blowing a gas, vapor, or powder into a body cavity.
3. (transitive, medicine) To inhale (a powder etc.).
   • 2001: Cocaine is usually taken by insufflating the white powdered cocaine sulphate into the nose, which leads to rapid absorption of the drug into the bloodstream. — Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2001, p. 98)

   Synonym: snort

4. (transitive, ecclesiastical) To exhale upon baptismal water, or the one being baptised, as a ritual act.

Related terms

Italian

Verb

insufflate

1. second-person plural present indicative of insufflare
2. second-person plural imperative of insufflare

Participle

insufflate

1. feminine plural of the past participle of insufflare

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /in.suf?fla?.te/, [??s??f?f??ä?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /in.suf?fla.te/, [insuf?fl??t??]

Verb

?nsuffl?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of ?nsuffl?