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

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

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.

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

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

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

Moreover, one always has his hands, but may forget his hammer and pleximeter.

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