单词 | respirometer |
释义 | respirometern. 1. Medicine. Any of various devices used to measure aspects of respiratory function, esp. the volume of air moved during breathing. Also with distinguishing word denoting the inventor of a particular device. Cf. spirometer n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > specific measuring or recording > [noun] > specific measuring or recording instruments pelvimeter1779 labimeter1785 pulmometer1814 neurometer1818 cardiometer1827 pneumatometer1832 lithometer1842 urinometer1843 spirometer1846 labidometer1848 paedometer1848 stethometer1850 pneumometer1853 psychograph1854 aesthesiometer1857 stethogoniometer1858 respirometer1859 anapnometer1860 chest-measurer1862 cardiograph1866 cyrtometer1867 myograph1867 myographion1867 pneumograph1868 anapnograph1870 polygraph1871 pneumatograph1874 pelycometer1875 baraesthesiometer1876 stetho-cardiograph1876 stethograph1876 haemocytometer1877 tambour1877 thoracometer1877 audiometer1879 tropometer1881 inspirometer1882 oncograph1882 oncometer1882 septometer1882 kinesimeter1885 pneograph1888 kinaesthesiometer1890 parturiometer1890 pneometer1890 spirograph1890 tonograph1890 pelvigraph1892 phrenograph1893 profilometer1895 calibrator1900 tremograph1904 urinopyknometer1905 adaptometer1907 phonoscope1908 electrocardiograph1910 phonocardiograph1913 arthrometer1918 pneumotachograph1926 cystometer1927 cardiotachometer1928 encephalograph1934 electroencephalograph1935 ballistocardiograph1938 phonoelectrocardioscope1942 electromyograph1944 pupillograph1951 statometer1957 pneumotach1961 magnetocardiograph1963 1849 Lancet 2 June 602/2 I am the embodiment of an ‘idea’ on phthisis, and I show the difference in the expired air of a healthy person, and also of a phthisical person... I am, Sir, yours respectfully, A ‘Respirometer’.] 1859 Edinb. New Philos. Jrnl. 9 293 He [sc. Dr. Edward Smith] found, by his new instrument, the ‘Respirometer’, that the quantity of carbonic acid expired varied most materially. 1880 T. C. Duncan Feeding & Managem. Infants & Children 328 Blowing into a respirometer will give zest to this lung practice. 1907 Arch. Otol. 36 401 A person afflicted with pulmonary tuberculosis..so weakened by his disease that he can raise the water only six inches in the ‘Respirometer’. 1992 Sci. Amer. July 56 (in figure) Collecting Human Breath... The respirometer measures the amount of each exhalation. 2001 Independent 16 Mar. ii. 6/3 In anaesthetics the Wright Respirometer is an essential tool for assessing breathing during operations. ΚΠ a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 753/1 Respirometer, the name adopted by Mr. Fleuss for his diver's apparatus for supplying air to a person beneath the surface of the water. 3. Biology. An apparatus that measures the rate of oxygen consumption or carbon dioxide generation by an organism, organic system, tissue, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > apparatus > [noun] > for measuring osmometer1854 plethysmograph1872 respirometer1896 turbidimeter1905 Warburg1930 stabilimeter1940 1896 Bot. Gaz. 22 468 Respirometer... It consists of a small chamber in which germinating seeds or other living material is placed, surrounded by water to keep the temperature uniform. 1908 W. F. Ganong Lab. Course Plant Physiol. (ed. 2) 131 Soak one set [of seeds] some 10 hours or more and place it in the chamber of a respirometer. 1948 Jrnl. Exper. Med. 87 177 (caption) Details of respirometer chamber to hold twenty eggs. 1969 Sci. Jrnl. Nov. 19/2 A simple fully automatic respirometer which measures organic pollution in sewage has been developed. 2008 Aquaculture 281 78/2 Oxygen consumption rates were determined from the depletion curves showing the oxygen concentration of seawater..vs. time within a closed plexi-glass respirometer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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