Pneuma [noun]
Definition of Pneuma:
innermost self; personality
Sentence/Example of Pneuma:
This pneuma was equivalent to both soul and life, but it was something more.
Another necessity for the support of life is the pneuma which circulates in the vessels.
The pneuma, or spirit, was in their opinion the cause of health and of disease.
Apparently Galen refers to the pneuma and the various humours.
Apparently the common Greek materialistic use of "pneuma" to indicate "breath" or "wind" or the like is here followed.
These vessels in the lungs, "through mutual contact" with the branches of the trachea, took in the pneuma.
"Psyche" was in the breast; "Pneuma" was spread throughout the body; and "Nous" was in the head.
More than fifteen centuries elapsed before this pneuma—oxygen—was discovered by Lavoisier.
The pneuma and the juice concentrate the power of the plant below so that it becomes denser.
He is a man, but a spiritual man, one in whom spirit or pneuma was the essential principle, so that he was spirit as well as man.