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kinaesthesiometer, n.|ˌkɪnɪsθiːzɪˈɒmɪtə(r)|
Also kinesthesiometer.
[a. G. Kinaesthesiometer (now Kinästhesiometer); cf. kinæsthesis n. and -ometer.]
An instrument for measuring the kinaesthetic sensitivity of an individual.
1890Billings Med. Dict. II. 10/2 Kinæsthesiometer, apparatus for testing the muscular sense. 1900C. S. Sherrington in E. A. Schäfer Text-bk. Physiol. II. 1022 Hitzig's kinæsthesiometer has been frequently employed; it is a set of balls outwardly alike, but individually loaded so as to be of different weights. 1985Developmental Med. & Child Neurol. XXVII. 223/2 The task used in this study involved the passive rotation of the child's arm which was placed on a trough of a standard kinesthesiometer instrument. |