pleximeter
English edit
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Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek πλῆξις (plêxis, “stroke, percussion”) + -meter.
Noun edit
pleximeter (plural pleximeters)
- (medicine) A small, hard, elastic plate, as of ivory, bone, or rubber, placed in contact with the body to receive the blow, in examination by mediate percussion.
Translations edit
instrument
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pleximeter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)