Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The scientific use of the plethysmograph.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physiol.) The study, by means of the plethysmograph, of the variations in size of a limb, and hence of its blood supply.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine The
diagnostic use of aplethysmograph .
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Examples
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Pulmonary function tests in older children includes spirometry, whole body plethysmography, single and multiple breath nitrogen washout, carbon monoxide diffusion capacity, respiratory muscle strength and lung compliance.
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The fellow is asked to undergo body plethysmography to understand the basic principles.
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In the same issue of AJOG, Holly Hull from Columbia University, New York, NY, compared body weight and composition (air-displacement plethysmography) in 33 neonates born to mothers with a normal pregravid BMI to 39 neonates born to overweight/obese mothers with normal glucose tolerance.
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The fellow is asked to undergo body plethysmography to understand the basic principles.
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Castrating adolescent pedophiles based on the evidence of mandatory penile plethysmography would probably prevent some child from being molested, but hardly seems like an ethical solution.
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Their degree of sexual arousal was measured by penile plethysmography, which precisely measures and records male tumescence.
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The application of plethysmography to the objective study of so-called extrasensory perception, Journal of the Society for PsychicalResearch, 40, 162-172.
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The application of plethysmography to the objective study of so-called extrasensory perception, Journal of the Society for PsychicalResearch, 40, 162-172.
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Three tests were conducted using penile plethysmography.
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Their degree of sexual arousal was measured by penile plethysmography, which precisely measures and records male tumescence.
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