† septometern.1
Medicine. Obsolete. rare.
An instrument supposed to measure the quantity of putrefying organic material in the air. Also figurative.
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1826 London Med. & Physical Jrnl. New Ser. 1 198 Dr. Granville has invented an instrument, which, by means of a preparation of chlorine, enables him to ascertain, not only whether animal matter, in a state of decomposition, be floating in the air, but also the quantity of such animal matter... He proposes calling the instrument the Septometer.
1860 Brit. & Foreign Medico-chirurg. Rev. 25 300 The healing of a wound is not a bad septometer.
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† septometern.2
Surgery. Obsolete.
Any of several instruments used to measure the thickness of the nasal septum.
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1882 C. Seiler in Med. News (U.S.) 2 Dec. 639/1 The septometer is held by a wooden handle, screwed at an angle into the lower blade.
1884 M. Mackenzie Man. Dis. Throat & Nose II. 435 An ingenious ‘septometer’ has been invented by Seiler, which serves to distinguish thickening [of the septum] from deviation when these affections occur separately.
1903 C. H. Knight Dis. Nose & Throat v. 117 The diagnosis of deviation is not difficult if one takes pains to compare the nostrils and to explore the nasal fossæ by means of a probe, with the finger tip, or, if need be, with a septometer.
1915 Illustr. Surg. Instruments Superior Quality (Roemer Drug Company) (ed. 21) 3156 Septometers... Dean's... Seiler's.
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