pneuma
Example Sentences
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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 William Osler
They believed that dilatation of the arteries drives onward the pneuma, and contraction of the arteries drives it in a contrary direction.
From Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine by James Sands Elliott
