pneumometer
(pnjuːˈmɒmɪtə(r), njuː-)
[f. pneumo- + -meter.]
= pneumatometer. So pneumometrograph (-ˈmɛtrəʊgrɑːf, -æ-): see quot.; pneuˈmometry = pneumatometry.
| 1857 J. Miller Alcohol (1858) 79 The mercury in the animal pneumometer..does not..fall back to the old level. 1887 Homeopath. World 1 Nov. 527 There is an arrangement (the pneumometrograph) for measuring the amount of medicated vapour which the patient inhales. 1853 Dunglison Med. Lex., Pneumometry, measurement of the capacity of the lungs for the air. |