† exsufflationn.
Obsolete exc. Historical.
1.
a. The action of blowing out; an instance of it.
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the world > matter > gas > air > moving air > [noun] > producing blast or current of air > blowing outwards or emission of air
expiring1612
exsufflation1623
expiration1642
outblowing1887
1623 T. Venner Viae Rectae Pars Secunda i. 15 Let not with lesse diligence the superfluities of the nose by exsufflation.
a1626 F. Bacon Physiol. Remains in Baconiana (1679) 122 It will flie upwards over the Helm by a kind of Exufflation without Vapouring.
1689 G. Harvey Art of curing Dis. by Expectation xvi. 124 Such offensive Ebullitions and Exufflations.
1775 in J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang.
b. concrete. That which is snuffled up.
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the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > mucus excreted > [noun]
collop1589
sneezings1607
exsufflation1666
sputum1684
sixpence1773
candle1858
1666 G. Harvey Morbus Anglicus iv. 45 Those..exufflations crowding into the sphere of the cranium do create most dreadful Head-akes.
2. Ecclesiastical. The action of blowing, performed by the priest upon a child or grown person at baptism, by way of exorcising the devil, or by the person baptized in token of renouncing the devil.
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society > faith > worship > exorcism > [noun] > by blowing or breathing upon
exsufflation1502
insufflation1580
the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > evil spirit or demon > [noun] > familiar or possessing spirit > exorcism of > by blowing or breathing upon
exsufflation1502
insufflation1580
1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) i. iii. sig. b.iiii By the exsuflacion yt the preest doth upon the childe.
1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xv. xxiv. 440 The right order of exorcisme..requireth that exsufflation..be doone toward the west.
1709 J. Johnson Clergy-man's Vade Mecum: Pt. II 267 The exorcisms and exsufflations made by the priest on persons to be baptized.
1858 Sat. Rev. 31 July 103 The old Mumbo Jumbo of ‘unchristianizing the Legislature’ must not be consigned to the eternal limbo..without a parting exsufflation.
Draft additions 1993
3. Medicine. The blowing out or extraction of air or gas from a body cavity, such as the lung. Opposed to insufflation n. 2.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments removing or dispersing matter > [noun] > extraction of air or gas
exsufflation1949
1949 Blakiston's New Gould Med. Dict. 365/1 Exsufflation, forced discharge of the breath.
1976 Acta Radiologica: Diagnosis XVII. 825 Pneumothorax occurred in 27.2 per cent of the patients. Only 7.7 per cent required exsufflation or drainage.
1977 Ugeskrift for Læger 139 2937/2 The main principles [are]..reliable placing of the loop round the polyp, strangulation and cauterizing following exsufflation of intestinal gas and insufflation of CO2[etc.].
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