Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
pleximeter .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
pleximeter .
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- noun Alternative form of
pleximeter .
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- noun a small thin metal plate held against the body and struck with a plexor in percussive examinations
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Examples
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Piorry (1794-1879) perfected percussion (definition of the borders and outlines of the organs, invention of the plessimeter, improvement of the stethoscope).
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