Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An instrument for measuring the respiratory movements of the walls of the chest.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physiol.) An apparatus for measuring the external movements of a given point of the chest wall, during respiration; -- also called
thoracometer .
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- noun An
apparatus for measuring the external movements of a given point of thechest wall, duringrespiration .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek chest + -meter.
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