pneumatic
-alt. of pneumatical

pneumatical
-consisting of, or resembling, air; having the properties of an elastic fluid; gaseous; opposed to dense or solid.
-of or pertaining to air, or to elastic fluids or their properties; pertaining to pneumatics; as, pneumatic experiments.
-moved or worked by pressure or flow of air; as, a pneumatic instrument; a pneumatic engine.
-fitted to contain air; having cavities filled with air; as, pneumatic cells; pneumatic bones.

pneumaticity
-the state of being pneumatic, or of having a cavity or cavities filled with air; as, the pneumaticity of the bones of birds.

pneumatics
-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.
-the scientific study or knowledge of spiritual beings and their relations to god, angels, and men.

pneumato
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-a combining form from gr. pney^ma, pney`matos, wind, air, breath, respiration; as, pneumatograph, pneumatology.

pneumatocele
-a distention of the scrotum by air; also, hernia of the lungs.

pneumatocyst
-a cyst or sac of a siphonophore, containing air, and serving as a float, as in physalia.

pneumatogarm
-a tracing of the respiratory movements, obtained by a pneumatograph or stethograph.

pneumatograph
-an instrument for recording the movements of the thorax or chest wall during respiration;
-- also called stethograph.

pneumatological
-of or pertaining to pneumatology.

pneumatologist
-one versed in pneumatology.

pneumatology
-the doctrine of, or a treatise on, air and other elastic fluids. see pneumatics, 1.
-the science of spiritual being or phenomena of any description.

pneumatometer
-an instrument for measuring the amount of force exerted by the lungs in respiration.

pneumatometry
-see spirometry.

pneumatophore
-one of the pneumonophora.

pneumatothorax
-see pneumothorax.

pneumo
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-a combining form from gr. pney`mwn, pney`monos, a lung; as, pneumogastric, pneumology.

pneumococcus
-a form of micrococcus found in the sputum (and elsewhere) of persons suffering with pneumonia, and thought to be the cause of this disease.

pneumogastric
-of or pertaining to the lungs and the stomach.
-the pneumogastric nerve.

pneumograph
-same as pneumatograph.

pneumography
-a description of the lungs.

pneumology
-the science which treats of the lungs.

pneumometer
-a spirometer.

pneumometry
-measurement of the capacity of the lungs for air.

pneumonia
-inflammation of the lungs.

pneumonic
-of or pertaining to the lungs; pulmonic.
-of or pertaining to pneumonia; as, pneumonic symptoms.
-a medicine for affections of the lungs.

pneumonitic
-of or pertaining to pneumonitis.

pneumonitis
-inflammation of the lungs; pneumonia.

pneumonometer
-a spirometer; a pneumometer.

pneumonophora
-the division of siphonophora which includes the physalia and allied genera;
-- called also pneumatophorae.

pneumony
-see pneumonia.

pneumootoka
-same as sauropsida.

pneumophora
-a division of holothurians having an internal gill, or respiratory tree.

pneumoskeleton
-a chitinous structure which supports the gill in some invertebrates.

pneumotherapy
-the treatment of disease by inhalations of compressed or rarefied air.

pneumothorax
-a condition in which air or other gas is present in the cavity of the chest;
-- called also pneumatothorax.

pnigalion
-nightmare.

pnyx
-the place at athens where the meetings of the people were held for making decrees, etc.