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mecometer

American  
[mi-kom-i-ter] / mɪˈkɒm ɪ tər /

noun

Medicine/Medical.

  1. a caliperlike instrument for measuring the length of newborn infants.

Etymology

Origin of mecometer

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

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And he shall have it; and at a length which shall content him, unless his mecometer be an insatiable apparatus.

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