pneumatize

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pneumatize (third-person singular simple present pneumatizes, present participle pneumatizing, simple past and past participle pneumatized)

  1. To fill with air cavities.
    • 1908, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, page 390:
      The sacci cervicales pneumatize the cervical and dorsal vertebræ and the ribs.