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- verb Present participle of
insufflate .
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Examples
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Skarsgard ED, Bealer JF, Meuli M, Adzick NS, Harrison MR: Fetal endoscopic surgery: The relationship between insufflating pressure and the placental circulation.
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For bronchoscopy, ether or chloroform may be started in the usual way and continued by insufflating through the branch tube of the bronchoscope by means of the apparatus shown in Fig. 13.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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For obstructive dyspnea and asphyxia, tracheotomy is the procedure of choice, and the skillful tracheotomist would be justified in preferring tracheotomy for the other class of cases, insufflating the oxygen and amyl nitrite through the tracheotomic wound.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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Cargines promises fuel saving by insufflating air to engine valves
Autoblog 2009
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