pneumatometer
(-ˈɒmɪtə(r))
[f. pneumato- + -meter.]
An instrument for measuring the amount of air breathed in or out at each inspiration or expiration, or for measuring the force of inspiration or expiration; a spirometer.
| 1834 Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 395 note, Dr. Marshall Hall's..contrivance for measuring the quantity of respiration with minuteness..is named the pneumatometer. 1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib. II. x. 17 By the suitable modification of the index, it is used as a pneumatometer for measuring the capacity of the chest. 1877 Holden in Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. Apr. 391 This instrument..furnishes a portable and reliable pneumatometer. 1895 Syd. Soc. Lex., P[neumatometer], Holden's..consists of a tube..containing a syren... The variations in the note produced serve to test the individual power, both in inspiration and in expiration. |
So pneumaˈtometry, measurement of the force or amount of breath; use of a pneumatometer.
| 1876 tr. von Ziemssen's Cycl. Med. IV. 284 Pneumatometry, recently introduced by Waldenburg, as a method of clinical exploration. |