Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being pneumatic, or hollow and filled with air; capacity of being inflated with air; inflation by air: applied to air-passages of animals, the hollow bones of birds, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) The state of being pneumatic, or of having a cavity or cavities filled with air.
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- noun biology The state of being
pneumatic , or of having acavity or cavities filled withair .
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Examples
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Vertebral pneumaticity, air sacs, and the physiology of sauropod dinosaurs.
‘Angloposeidon’, the unreported story, part II Darren Naish 2006
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Matt Wedel – pneumaticity and giant brachiosaurid expert – has certainly been interested and even came to see the specimen in March 2004.
‘Angloposeidon’, the unreported story, part IV Darren Naish 2006
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Because MIWG. 7306 is broken into halves, making examination of its pneumatic interior possible, a current project is to get lots more data about pneumaticity out of it.
Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Postcranial skeletal pneumaticity in sauropods and its implications for mass estimates.
‘Angloposeidon’, the unreported story, part II Darren Naish 2006
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Postcranial skeletal pneumaticity in sauropods and its implications for mass estimates.
Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Andrew said ... it'd be good to see more on pneumaticity and Angloposeidon - hopefully together.
Happy Christmas, from gigantic Spanish sauropods... or, alas, poor ‘Angloposeidon’ Darren Naish 2006
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The award stems from his excellent 2005 paper ‘Postcranial skeletal pneumaticity in sauropods and its implications for mass estimates’: required reading here at Tetrapod Zoology Towers (free pdf available here).
Matt Wedel: officially, a bastard Darren Naish 2006
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Yes, I am very pleased to congratulate my good friend Matt Wedel – whom you may or may not know better as Dr Vector, or as ‘that pneumaticity guy’ (shown here posing with an enormous bone*) – for winning the 2006 International Award on Paleontology.
Matt Wedel: officially, a bastard Darren Naish 2006
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Andrew: pneumaticity expert Matt Wedel and I are due to work together some time in 2007 on the skeletal and soft-tissue pneumaticity in sauropod and theropod dinosaurs, so I will certainly be blogging about this subject in the near future.
Happy Christmas, from gigantic Spanish sauropods... or, alas, poor ‘Angloposeidon’ Darren Naish 2006
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In its degree of pneumaticity, MIWG. 7306 appears intermediate between Brachiosaurus and Sauroposeidon.
‘Angloposeidon’, the unreported story, part II Darren Naish 2006
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