spirometern.

/spʌɪˈrɒmɪtə/

Etymology: Irregularly < Latin spīrāre to breathe: see -ometer comb. form.

An instrument for measuring the breathing power of the lungs.

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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

1846 Hutchinson in Medico-chirurg. Trans. XXIX. 146 General and practical deductions, to detect disease by the spirometer, with the method of its application.

1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table x. 276 Estimating height, weight, force by the dynamometer and the spirometer.

1877 M. Foster Text Bk. Physiol. (1878) ii. ii. 255 It may be measured by a modification of a gas meter called a spirometer.

Derivatives

spiroˈmetric adj.

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cardiographic1863

myographic1867

sphygmographic1867

polygraphic1871

cardiometrical1874

stethometric1876

plethysmographic1884

cyrtometric1885

haemautographic1885

spirometric1887

spirometrical1887

pneumographic1888

paedometric1889

myographical1890

stethographic1890

phlebographic1893

cephalometrical1895

oncometric1897

sphygmometric1898

sphygmomanometric1902

electrocardiographic1909

electrographic1909

cystometric1927

oscillometric1927

pneumotachographic1928

phonocardiographic1931

cephalometric1935

electroencephalographic1936

ballistocardiographic1939

phonocardiographical1943

spirographic1946

electronystagmographic1956

magnetocardiographic1970

tympanometric1970

magnetoencephalographic1976

1887 Jrnl. Education No. 210. 29 The distance naturally separating them..on the spirometric register.

1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 310 (a) Increase of chest circumference, (b) increase of spirometric capacity.

spiroˈmetrical adj.

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