Pneuma - 2 reference results
Pneuma (πνεύμα) is an ancient Greek word for "breath," given various technical meanings by medical writers and philosophers of antiquity, including:
- * Pneuma, "air in motion, breath, wind," equivalent in the material monism of Anaximenes to aer (ἀήρ, "air") as the element from which all else originated; the earliest extant occurrence of the term
- * Pneuma (ancient medicine), the circulating air that is necessary for the systemic functioning of vital organs, according to various medical writers of antiquity
- * The connate pneuma of Aristotle, the warm mobile "air" that in the sperm transmits the capacity for locomotion and certain sensations to the offspring
- * Pneuma (Stoic), the Stoic concept of the animating warm breath, in both the cosmos and the body
Pneuma also refers to:
- *The pneuma or "spirit" in Gnosticism
- * Pneuma, a concept of Christian pneumatology
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