airpuff

English

Etymology

air +‎ puff

Noun

airpuff (plural airpuffs)

  1. A short, sharp puff of air designed to startle a small animal in a biological experiment.
    • 2015, Samuel Andrew Hires et al., “Low-noise encoding of active touch by layer 4 in the somatosensory cortex”, in eLife‎, volume 4, →DOI:
      No airpuff punishment or active removal of residual water from the lickport was used.
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