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单词 insufflate
释义

insufflate

/ˈɪnsəfleɪt /
verb [with object]
1 Medicine Blow or breathe (air, vapour, or a powdered medicine) into or through a body cavity.Gas is insufflated through the catheter at various flow rates....
  • Once gastric placement was confirmed, 500 to 1000 mL of air was insufflated and the tube was advanced.
  • The gas then is insufflated into the vitreous cavity by a technique called gas/fluid exchange.
1.1Blow or breathe something into or through (a part of the body).The surgeon insufflates (ie, injects gas into) the child's abdomen with carbon dioxide until a pressure of 10 mm Hg is achieved to create pneumoperitoneum....
  • They stacked the consecutively delivered air volumes, holding them with a closed glottis, until the lungs and chest walls were as deeply insufflated as possible.
  • The surgeon places a 10-mm port in the umbilicus and insufflates the abdomen with carbon dioxide to 15 mm of pressure.
2 Theology Breathe on (someone) to symbolize spiritual influence.The task of cinema would be not to represent this but to actualise its trajectories, to insufflate the fiber of this transcendental universe.

Derivatives

insufflation

/ˌɪnsəˈfleɪʃ(ə)n / noun ...
  • The overall success rate of air insufflation was greater than the overall success rate for metoclopramide.
  • In 1774, a medical doctor described a maneuver used to occlude the ‘gullet’ by applying pressure to the cricoid cartilage for preventing stomach insufflation when resuscitating near-drowning victims.
  • For patients not receiving narcotics, administering 10 mg of metoclopramide resulted in a higher success rate of postpyloric placement of feeding tubes than did air insufflation, although the difference was not significant.

Origin

Late 17th century: from late Latin insufflat- 'blown into', from the verb insufflare, from in- 'into' + sufflare 'blow' (from sub- 'from below' + flare 'to blow'). sense 2 dates from the early 20th century.

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