mecometer
[mi-kom-i-ter]
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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,
- mecon,
- meconic,
- meconism,
- meconium,
- meconium aspiration
Origin of mecometer
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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