pleximeter

[ plek-sim-i-ter ]

noun

, Medicine/Medical.

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

Other Words From

• plex·i·met·ric [plek-s, uh, -, me, -trik], adjective
• plex·ime·try noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of pleximeter¹

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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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