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单词 respirometer
释义

respirometern.

Brit. /ˌrɛspᵻˈrɒmᵻtə/, U.S. /ˌrɛspəˈrɑmədər/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: respire v., -ometer comb. form.
Etymology: < respire v. + -ometer comb. form.
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.
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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.
2. An apparatus for supplying air to a diver. Obsolete. rare.
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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.
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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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