airpuff

noun

airpuff

noun

Etymology From air + puff.

1

A short, sharp puff of air designed to startle a small animal in a biological experiment.

  • No airpuff punishment or active removal of residual water from the lickport was used.2015, Samuel Andrew Hires et al., “Low-noise encoding of active touch by layer 4 in the somatosensory cortex”, in eLife, volume 4, →DOI:

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