pneumatics (iou) and Physaloptera (medicine)

pneumatics (iou)

pneumatics noun. M17.
[from PNEUMATIC adjective after dynamics etc.: see -ICS.]
The branch of physics that deals with the mechanical properties of air and Other elastic fluids or gases. M17.
= PNEUMATOLOGY 1. obsolete exc. Hist. L17.

Physaloptera (medicine)

Physaloptera

A large genus of spiruroid roundworms parasitic in the stomach and duodenum of vertebrates, especially birds and mammals; they are transmitted via insect and annelid intermediate hosts and are frequently pathogenic, causing erosions and catarrhal gastritis. Physaloptera caucasica is a species reported in man in the southern part of the area formerly known as the USSR; Physaloptera mordens is a species from tropical Africa found only rarely in the oesophagus, stomach, and intestine of man (probably cases of temporary infection from ingestion of infected insects).

Origin: G. Physallis, bladder, + pteron, wing

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