mecometer

[ mi-kom-i-ter ]

/ mɪˈkɒm ɪ tər /

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noun Medicine/Medical.

a caliperlike instrument for measuring the length of newborn infants.

Nearby words

mecklenburg-vorpommern, mecklenburg-west pomerania, mecklenburg–western pomerania, meclizine, meclofenamate sodium, mecometer, mecon, meconism, meconium, meconium aspiration, meconium ileus

Origin of mecometer

1850–55; < Greek mêko(s) length + -meter

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Examples from the Web for mecometer

And he shall have it; and at a length which shall content him, unless his mecometer be an insatiable apparatus.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)|Augustus de Morgan