pleximeter

American  

[plek-sim-i-ter] / plɛkˈsɪm ɪ tər /

noun

Medicine/Medical.

1. a small, thin plate, as of ivory, placed against the body to mediate the blow of a plexor.

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Other Word Forms

• pleximetric
  adjective
• pleximetry
  noun

Etymology

Origin of pleximeter

1835–45; < Greek plêxi(s) stroke, percussion + -meter

Example Sentences

Now and then it helps to bend the pleximeter finger at the second joint, hold it perpendicularly to the chest wall, and strike the joint directly in line of the finger.

From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Warfield, Louis Marshall

A percussion hammer and pleximeter may be purchased from any veterinary instrument maker.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry

Finally one's pleximeter finger becomes, after long practice, so sensitive to changes in the resonance of structures lying below it, that there is actual feeling of impairment to the slightest degree.

From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Warfield, Louis Marshall

Percussion is sometimes practiced with the aid of a special percussion hammer and an object known as a pleximeter to strike upon.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry

The little hammer and hard rubber, celluloid, bone, or ivory pleximeter does not seem to me to be nearly as good as the fingers.

From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Warfield, Louis Marshall