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Definition of Pneumaticity
1. n. The state of being pneumatic, or of having a cavity or cavities filled with air; as, the pneumaticity of the bones of birds.
Definition of Pneumaticity
1. Noun. (biology) The state of being pneumatic, or of having a cavity or cavities filled with air. ¹
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Definition of Pneumaticity
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Medical Definition of Pneumaticity
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Pneumaticity
Literary usage of Pneumaticity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1869)
"Body with remarkable pneumaticity ; not much depressed. Taken from* Geese. ...
Body with unusual pneumaticity: moderately depressed. Taken from Albatrosses. ..."
2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1869)
"Body with remarkable pneumaticity ; not much depressed. Taken from* Geese. ...
Body with unusual pneumaticity: moderately depressed. Taken from Albatrosses. ..."
3. Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by Robert Wiedersheim, William Newton Parker (1897)
"The pneumaticity of the bones is not, however, an essential peculiarity connected
with flight, for in many Birds which are extremely good fliers (eg, Larus, ..."
4. Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by Robert Wiedersheim, William Newton Parker (1897)
"The pneumaticity of the bones is not, however, an essential peculiarity connected
with flight, for in many Birds which are extremely good fliers (eg, Larus, ..."
5. Library of Natural History by Richard Lydekker (1901)
"Curiously enough, there appears to be no sort of relation between the power of
flight of a bird and the degree of development of pneumaticity, ..."
6. Publication by Palaeontographical Society (Great Britain) (1870)
"By the pneumaticity of the bones of the ... air makes the pneumaticity of the
skeleton as available and advantageous to a cold-blooded as to a warm-blooded ..."
7. Library of Natural History by Richard Lydekker (1901)
"Curiously enough, there appears to be no sort of relation between the power of
flight of a bird and the degree of development of pneumaticity, ..."
8. Publication by Palaeontographical Society (Great Britain) (1870)
"By the pneumaticity of the bones of the ... air makes the pneumaticity of the
skeleton as available and advantageous to a cold-blooded as to a warm-blooded ..."
9. Notes on Some Upper Cretaceous Volutidae, with Descriptions of New Species by William Healey Dall (1908)
"235) ascribe a great significance to the reduction of specific gravity imparted
to the skeleton by the pneumaticity of bones. Strasser (1877, p. ..."
10. Notes on Some Upper Cretaceous Volutidae, with Descriptions of New Species by William Healey Dall (1908)
"235) ascribe a great significance to the reduction of specific gravity imparted
to the skeleton by the pneumaticity of bones. Strasser (1877, p. ..."
11. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"... the structure of the scale and feathers, and claws ; the pneumaticity of the
bones ; the preening of the feathers ; the dull coloring of the female ..."
12. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"However, pneumaticity is a very inconstant character and is not even of generic
value. The connection between the reduced phalanges of the Swift and its ..."
13. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1906)
"The hind limb and pelvis of birds can hardly be said to exhibit volant adaptation,
unless it lie in the development of pneumaticity, as their structure is ..."
14. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"... the structure of the scale and feathers, and claws ; the pneumaticity of the
bones ; the preening of the feathers ; the dull coloring of the female ..."
15. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"However, pneumaticity is a very inconstant character and is not even of generic
value. The connection between the reduced phalanges of the Swift and its ..."
16. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1906)
"The hind limb and pelvis of birds can hardly be said to exhibit volant adaptation,
unless it lie in the development of pneumaticity, as their structure is ..."
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