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Of or pertaining to pneumatology.

One versed in pneumatology.

The doctrine of, or a treatise on, air and other elastic fluids. See Pneumatics, 1.

An instrument for measuring the amount of force exerted by the lungs in respiration.

See Spirometry.

One of the Pneumonophora.

See Pneumothorax.

A combining form from Gr. a lung; as, pneumogastric, pneumology.

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

The pneumogastric nerve. Pneumogastric nerve (Anat.), one of the tenth pair of cranial nerves which are distributed to the pharynx, esophagus, larynx, lungs, heart, stomach, liver, and spleen, and, in fishes and many amphibia, to the branchial apparatus and also to the sides of the body.

Same as Pneumatograph.

A description of the lungs. Dunglison.

The science which treats of the lungs.

A spirometer.

Measurement of the capacity of the lungs for air. Dunglison.

Inflammation of the lungs.

Of or pertaining to pneumonia; as, pneumonic symptoms.

Of or pertaining to pneumonitis.

Inflammation of the lungs; pneumonia.

A spirometer; a pneumometer.