Inhalation vs. Insufflation

Inhalationnoun

The act of inhaling; inbreathing.

Inhalationnoun

The substance (medicament) which is inhaled.

Inhalationnoun

The act of inhaling; also, that which is inhaled.

Inhalationnoun

the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing

Inhalationnoun

a medication to be taken by inhaling it

Inhalation

Inhalation happens when air or other gases enter the lungs.

Insufflationnoun

The action of breathing or blowing into or on.

Insufflationnoun

The result of breathing or blowing into or on.

Insufflationnoun

The ritual breathing onto the water used for baptism

Insufflationnoun

The act of breathing on or into anything

Insufflationnoun

(medicine) blowing air or medicated powder into the lungs (or into some other body cavity)

Insufflationnoun

an act of blowing or breathing on or into something

Insufflation

In religious and magical practice, insufflation and exsufflation are ritual acts of blowing, breathing, hissing, or puffing that signify variously expulsion or renunciation of evil or of the devil (the Evil One), or infilling or blessing with good (especially, in religious use, with the Spirit or grace of God). In historical Christian practice, such blowing appears most prominently in the liturgy, and is connected almost exclusively with baptism and other ceremonies of Christian initiation, achieving its greatest popularity during periods in which such ceremonies were given a prophylactic or exorcistic significance, and were viewed as essential to the defeat of the devil or to the removal of the taint of original sin.Ritual blowing occurs in the liturgies of catechumenate and baptism from a very early period and survives into the modern Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Maronite, and Coptic rites.