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- English Word Pneumatical Definition Consisting of, or resembling, air; having the properties of an elastic fluid; gaseous; opposed to dense or solid.
- English Word Pneumatical Definition Of or pertaining to air, or to elastic fluids or their properties; pertaining to pneumatics; as, pneumatic experiments.
- English Word Pneumatical Definition Moved or worked by pressure or flow of air; as, a pneumatic instrument; a pneumatic engine.
- English Word Pneumatical Definition Fitted to contain air; Having cavities filled with air; as, pneumatic cells; pneumatic bones.
- English Word Pneumaticity Definition The state of being pneumatic, or of having a cavity or cavities filled with air; as, the pneumaticity of the bones of birds.
- English Word Pneumatics Definition That branch of science which treats of the mechanical properties of air and other elastic fluids, as of their weight, pressure, elasticity, etc. See Mechanics.
- English Word Pneumatics Definition The scientific study or knowledge of spiritual beings and their relations to God, angels, and men.
- English Word Pneumato- Definition A combining form from Gr. pney^ma, pney`matos, wind, air, breath, respiration; as, pneumatograph, pneumatology.
- English Word Pneumatocele Definition A distention of the scrotum by air; also, hernia of the lungs.
- English Word Pneumatocyst Definition A cyst or sac of a siphonophore, containing air, and serving as a float, as in Physalia.
- English Word Pneumatogarm Definition A tracing of the respiratory movements, obtained by a pneumatograph or stethograph.
- English Word Pneumatograph Definition An instrument for recording the movements of the thorax or chest wall during respiration; -- also called stethograph.
- English Word Pneumatological Definition Of or pertaining to pneumatology.
- English Word Pneumatologist Definition One versed in pneumatology.
- English Word Pneumatology Definition The doctrine of, or a treatise on, air and other elastic fluids. See Pneumatics, 1.
- English Word Pneumatology Definition The science of spiritual being or phenomena of any description.
- English Word Pneumatometer Definition An instrument for measuring the amount of force exerted by the lungs in respiration.
- English Word Pneumatometry Definition See Spirometry.
- English Word Pneumatophore Definition One of the Pneumonophora.
- English Word Pneumatothorax Definition See Pneumothorax.
- English Word Pneumo- Definition A combining form from Gr. pney`mwn, pney`monos, a lung; as, pneumogastric, pneumology.
- English Word Pneumococcus Definition A form of micrococcus found in the sputum (and elsewhere) of persons suffering with pneumonia, and thought to be the cause of this disease.
- English Word Pneumogastric Definition Of or pertaining to the lungs and the stomach.
- English Word Pneumogastric Definition The pneumogastric nerve.
- English Word Pneumograph Definition Same as Pneumatograph.
- English Word Pneumography Definition A description of the lungs.
- English Word Pneumology Definition The science which treats of the lungs.
- English Word Pneumometer Definition A spirometer.
- English Word Pneumometry Definition Measurement of the capacity of the lungs for air.
- English Word Pneumonia Definition Inflammation of the lungs.