airpuff

English

Etymology

From 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.