toposcopen.
/ˈtɒpəʊskəʊp/ 1. A device (as a horizontal circular dial) showing the direction of designated features of the landscape and usually erected on a hilltop.
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the world > space > direction > [noun] > finding direction > device for finding direction > of landscape features
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1907 New Pictorial & Descr. Guide to Malvern 56 Many of the more prominent objects and principal sites may be identified by..the help afforded by the Indicator, or Toposcope, erected on the summit of the hill.
1968 V. Waite Malvern Country vi. 77 The direction indicator—or toposcope, to give it the technical name—was set up on the Beacon summit to commemorate the reign of Queen Victoria.
1974 Victorian (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 22 Mar. 45/3 Nearby is a panoramic viewing area with a toposcope, giving details of all the islands dotted around in the sparkling blue China Sea 1,800 feet below.
2. Medicine. An instrument used for toposcopy.
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the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > examination > [noun] > by physical means > of specific parts or using specific instruments > specific examining instruments
speculum1598
diopter1706
otoscope1853
stomatoscope1853
laparoscope1855
cardioscope1856
sphygmoscope1856
stereoscope1857
laryngoscope1860
pharyngoscope1861
rhinoscope1861
autolaryngoscope1863
vaginoscope1863
oesophagoscope1868
photophore1871
rectoscope1871
endoscope1872
autoscope1873
glottiscope1876
polyscope1878
duck-bill speculum1879
tracer1882
diaphanoscope1883
gastroscope1888
cystoscope1889
kinetoskotoscope1896
photoscope1896
proctoscope1896
bronchoscope1899
sigmoidoscope1900
arthroscope1925
peritoneoscope1939
toposcope1951
fibrescope1954
mediastinoscope1966
fetoscope1968
angioscope1980
1951 Walter & Shipton in Electroencephalogr. & Clin. Neurophysiol. III. 282/2 Because it provided a visual display of topographic detail this device was called a Toposcope.
1965 Math. in Biol. & Med. (Med. Res. Council) IV. 159 The ‘toposcope’..depicts each EEG electrode as a spot on a cathode ray tube.
1977 Lancet 21 May 1114/1 He devised the first on-line frequency analyser, which with subsequent modifications led to the ‘toposcope’.
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