exsufflation

noun

• 1 Medicine the removal of material from a body cavity (especially the lung) by blowing:only 7.7% of patients required exsufflation or drainage

• 2 rare the action or process of breathing out; exhalation.
• Theology the action of blowing as a form of exorcism or to symbolize renunciation of the devil:sometimes the exorcist used the rite of exsufflation