Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (2)
1.
(medicine) blowing air or medicated powder into the lungs (or into some other body cavity);
2.
an act of blowing or breathing on or into something;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Insufflation \In`suf*fla"tion\, n. [L. insuffatio: cf. F.
insuffation. See In- in, and Sufflation.]
The act of breathing on or into anything; especially:
(a) (R. C. Ch.) The breathing upon a person in the sacrament
of baptism to symbolize the inspiration of a new
spiritual life.
(b) (Med.) The act of blowing (a gas, powder, or vapor) into
any cavity of the body.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
insufflation
n 1: (medicine) blowing air or medicated powder into the lungs
(or into some other body cavity)
2: an act of blowing or breathing on or into something