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单词 septometer
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septometern.1

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: septo- comb. form1, -meter comb. form2.
Etymology: < septo- comb. form1 + -meter comb. form2.
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.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020).

septometern.2

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: septo- comb. form2, -meter comb. form2.
Etymology: < septo- comb. form2 + -meter comb. form2.
Surgery. Obsolete.
Any of several instruments used to measure the thickness of the nasal septum.
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the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > specific measuring or recording > [noun] > specific measuring or recording instruments
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urinometer1843
spirometer1846
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paedometer1848
stethometer1850
pneumometer1853
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pneumograph1868
anapnograph1870
polygraph1871
pneumatograph1874
pelycometer1875
baraesthesiometer1876
stetho-cardiograph1876
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haemocytometer1877
tambour1877
thoracometer1877
audiometer1879
tropometer1881
inspirometer1882
oncograph1882
oncometer1882
septometer1882
kinesimeter1885
pneograph1888
kinaesthesiometer1890
parturiometer1890
pneometer1890
spirograph1890
tonograph1890
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calibrator1900
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adaptometer1907
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pneumotachograph1926
cystometer1927
cardiotachometer1928
encephalograph1934
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ballistocardiograph1938
phonoelectrocardioscope1942
electromyograph1944
pupillograph1951
statometer1957
pneumotach1961
magnetocardiograph1963
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.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020).
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