单词 | septometer |
释义 | † septometern.1 Medicine. Obsolete. rare. An instrument supposed to measure the quantity of putrefying organic material in the air. Also figurative. ΚΠ 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 Surgery. Obsolete. Any of several instruments used to measure the thickness of the nasal septum. 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 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). < n.11826n.21882 |
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