(n.) The breathing upon a person in the sacrament of baptism to symbolize the inspiration of a new spiritual life.
(n.) The act of blowing (a gas, powder, or vapor) into any cavity of the body.
Example Sentences:
(1) The disposition of radiolabeled cocaine in humans has been studied after three routes of administration: iv injection, nasal insufflation (ni, snorting), and smoke inhalation (si).
(2) Demographic, hemodynamic, arterial blood gas, and ventilatory data were collected before peritoneal insufflation and at intervals during surgery.
(3) Cardiovascular disturbances and hypoxia can occur in conjunction with CO2 insufflation and can be avoided by monitoring the endexpiratory CO2 concentrations by infrared absorption spectrometry.
(4) A critical aspect in the use of the laryngeal mask is the fact that there is no complete isolation of the trachea and, therefore, an insufflation of the stomach or aspiration could occur, especially during critical situations (e.g.
(5) Insufflations from RV were necessary to produce the gas trapping.
(6) Venous PCO2 was increased by insufflating the gut with high CO2 while recording changes in the amplitude of the sternal movements.
(7) During constant volume of ventilation, mean arterial co2 tension rose approximately 5 torr following insufflation of the peritoneal cavity with carbon dioxide.
(8) With PEEP and left atrial balloon insufflation, central venous and pulmonary arterial pressure were increased approximately threefold (P less than 0.05).
(9) These results demonstrate the value of a rapid insufflation in order to give longer expiration time per minute for the benefit of the venous return and cardiac output.
(10) doses of 0.2 and 2 micrograms capsaicin induced bradycardia, hypertension and salivation but no change in insufflation pressure.
(11) A sham group of six sheep was insufflated with air instead of smoke.
(12) At a later date peritoneoscopy was planned and gas insufflated into the abdominal cavity in the usual manner; the patient did not complain about anything particular during peritoneoscopy.
(13) The effect on alveolar oxygen fraction (FAO2) of insufflating oxygen under a mask (or through an inflow nipple provided in the mask) during simulated mouth-to-mask ventilation was investigated using a lung model.
(14) Forty-nine cases of gastroduodenal perforation were subjected to new air insufflation test.
(15) A second zone, close to the insufflated jet of O2, uses convective streaming to produce greater gas mixing at higher flows.
(16) Increases in pulmonary arterial pressure, tracheal insufflation pressure, and blood levels of the prostaglandin F2alpha metabolite, 15-keto-13, 14-dihydro F2alpha, were observed after protamine chloride or thrombin-induced platelet aggregation and release reaction in dogs.
(17) Uterine distention was achieved with D5W in 270 patients, with dextran 32% in 30 patients, and with CO2 gas insufflation in 20 patients.
(18) This study compares gas exchange and hemodynamic parameters during bronchial insufflation with two different internal diameter (ID) catheters (2.5 and 1.4 mm) at a constant mean gas exit velocity.
(19) In conclusion, the increase in the respiratory insufflation pressure, caused by stimulation of noncholinergic nerves, seemed to be controlled by inhibitory alpha-2-adrenoceptors in guinea pig airways.
(20) In half 25 mg surfactant was insufflated through the endotracheal tube; it could be detected in tracheal secretions for at least the next 24 h. There was no significant difference in ventilator pressures or oxygen therapy used nor in neonatal mortality and morbidity in the first 2 years of life between the surfactant-treated and control groups in either trial.
Ritual
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to rites or ritual; as, ritual service or sacrifices; the ritual law.
(n.) A prescribed form of performing divine service in a particular church or communion; as, the Jewish ritual.
(n.) Hence, the code of ceremonies observed by an organization; as, the ritual of the freemasons.
(n.) A book containing the rites to be observed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Over the years it has become something of a Westminster ritual.
(2) Stonehenge stood at the heart of a sprawling landscape of chapels, burial mounds, massive pits and ritual shrines, according to an unprecedented survey of the ancient grounds.
(3) Should I be killed, I would like to be buried, according to Muslim rituals, in the clothes I was wearing at the time of my death and my body unwashed, in the cemetery of Sirte, next to my family and relatives.
(4) If the villagers fail to respect the social code, by not using her new name or by reminding her of her indignity, they have to perform a reparative ritual, at which a goat is sacrificed.
(5) The unprogrammed component of patient ritual involvement differs between the two settings, while the formal ritual 'script' is identical.
(6) When it happens, it will be Africa's first clinic specifically for performing FGM-restoration surgery, including clitoroplasty – a highly symbolic act at the heart of a region where the ritual is prevalent.
(7) A total of 77 families with an adolescent member completed the Family Ritual Questionnaire, and the adolescents completed a measure of self-esteem.
(8) Our behavioral studies have identified a number of conditioned psychophysiological responses associated with the self-injection ritual.
(9) The Treasurer Joe Hockey walks to a doorstop interview with the media this morning at the Ministerial entrance to Parliament House in Canberra, Tuesday 13th May 2013 Photograph: Mike Bowers, Guardian Australia There is a certain commonality associated with the annual rituals of the treasurer.
(10) Critics of initiation say traditional leaders have failed to update their teachings from the times when the ritual was put in place to select and grade warriors.
(11) As for unwinding, the rituals of it give a satisfying end to the shape of my day.
(12) The Digo healer applies hypnosis, somatiic exercises, stimulating music, and drugs in his three-day ritual performed mainly for psychosomatic and chronic illness.
(13) Real-life exposure with self-imposed response prevention is usually an effective procedure for lasting reduction of chronic compulsive rituals in well motivated patients.
(14) Mr Major and Mr Blair ritually made light of the poll results but Dr Mawhinney led Tory claims that ICM's private findings for them were consistent with its public work for the Guardian.
(15) The Mediterranean diet involves a set of skills, knowledge, rituals, symbols and traditions concerning crops, harvesting, fishing, animal husbandry, conservation, processing, cooking and particularly the sharing and consumption of food.
(16) Scores of archaeologists working in a waterlogged trench through the wettest summer and coldest winter in living memory have recovered more than 10,000 objects from Roman London , including writing tablets, amber, a well with ritual deposits of pewter, coins and cow skulls, thousands of pieces of pottery, a unique piece of padded and stitched leather – and the largest collection of lucky charms in the shape of phalluses ever found on a single site.
(17) Such rituals of authority, though virtually abolished in Britain, may well exist in a different form in present day residential institutions for children in some Third World countries that have borrowed from now outdated European practices.
(18) So too will the evening ritual of spreading out a plastic sheet over a bed to turn it into a dining table.
(19) The functions subserved by possession behaviour are reviewed, and comparisons are drawn between personal possession, ritual possession, and altered states of consciousness in Western society.
(20) The classic European blood libel, like many other classic European creations, had a strict set of images which must always contain a cherubic Gentile child sacrificed by those perfidious Jews, his blood to be used for ritual purposes.