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reflectoscope|rɪˈflɛktəskəʊp|
[f. reflect v. + -o + -scope.]
An instrument for investigating opaque bodies by transmitting ultrasound into them and measuring its reflection.
1944Sun (Baltimore) 26 May 9/1 The invention, credited to Dr. Floyd A. Firestone, physicist and acoustics expert, is known as the ‘supersonic reflectoscope’... The machine can gauge thickness of metal when one side is inaccessible. 1964I. Edler in D. Gordon Ultrasound as Diagnostic & Surg. Tool xiv. 124 The apparatus used for ultrasound-cardiography is an ultrasound reflectoscope. |