See Also: pneumato-(medicine)
pneumato-(dictionary)

pneumato- (iou)



pneumato- combining form. Before a vowel pneumat-. Cf. PNEUMO-.
[Greek, combining form of pneuma: see PNEUMA, -O-.]
Air, gas; breath, respiration; spirit.
pneumatocele noun (Medicine) a cyst containing air or gas; a hernia of the lung: L17.
pneu'matocyst noun (Zoology) an air-sac in an animal body; esp. the gas-filled chamber of a pneumatophore: M19.
pneuma'tometer noun an instrument for measuring the volume or force of inspiration or expiration, a spirometer M19.
pneumato'therapy noun treatment of diseases, esp. of the lungs, by inhalation of compressed or rarefied air L19.
pneumato'thorax noun (Medicine) = PNEUMOTHORAX E19.