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Insufflated vs Insufflate - What's the difference?

insufflated | insufflate |

As verbs the difference between insufflated and insufflate

is that insufflated is (insufflate) while insufflate is to breathe or blow into or on.

As an adjective insufflated

is disseminated by blowing.

insufflated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (insufflate)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Disseminated by blowing.

    • insufflate

    English

    Verb

    (insufflat)
  • To breathe or blow into or on.
  • (medicine) To treat by blowing a gas, vapor, or powder into a body cavity.
  • (medicine) To inhale (a powder etc.).
  • * 2001': Cocaine is usually taken by '''insufflating the white powdered cocaine sulphate into the nose, which leads to rapid absorption of the drug into the bloodstream. — Leslie Iversen, ''Drugs: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2001, p. 98)
  • (ecclesiastical) To exhale upon baptismal water, or the one being baptised, as a ritual act.

    • Synonyms

    * (to inhale) snort

    Related terms

    * insufflation * insufflator English transitive verbs ----