pneuma

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We leave the realm of biography and information, and we experience breath, pneuma, life itself.

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2022

A favorite word of his is pneuma: “the breath of life,” in Greek, which he first learned in one of his religion classes.

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2022

What further ballooned the President’s spirits amid the national conflict was the great pneuma of world solidarity.

From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2015

The function of respiration was the introduction of the pneuma, the spirits which passed from the lungs to the heart through the pulmonary vessels.

From The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 by Osler, William

These vessels in the lungs, "through mutual contact" with the branches of the trachea, took in the pneuma.

From The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 by Osler, William