pneumatic

PNEUMATIC

PNEUMATICAL, adjective numat'ic. [Gr. breath, spirit; to breathe or blow.]

1. Consisting of air, as a thin compressible substance; opposed to dense or solid substances.

The pneumatic substance being, in some bodies, the native spirit of the body.

2. Pertaining to air, or to the philosophy of its properties; as pneumatic experiments; a pneumatic engine.

3. Moved or played by means of air; as a pneumatic instrument of music.

pneumatics

PNEUMAT'ICS, noun In natural philosophy, that branch which treats of air. In chimistry, that branch which treats of the gases.

1. In the schools, the doctrine of spiritual substances, as God, angels, and the souls of men.

pneumatocele

PNEUMAT'OCELE, noun [Gr. air, and a tumor.] In surgery, a distension of the scrotum by air.

pneumatological

PNEUMATOLOG'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to pneumatology.

pneumatologist

PNEUMATOL'OGIST, noun One versed in pneumatology.

pneumatology

PNEUMATOL'OGY, noun [Gr. air, and discourse.]

1. The doctrine of the properties of elastic fluids, or of spiritual substances.

2. A treatise on elastic fluids, or on spiritual substances.

pneumonia

PNEUMO'NIA

PNEUMON'IC, adjective Pertaining to the lungs; pulmonic.

PNEUMON'IC, noun A medicine for affections of the lungs.

pneumony

PNEU'MONY, noun [Gr. the lungs, to breathe.]

In medicine, an inflammation of the lungs.