|
|
Definition of Pleximetry
1. Noun. Tapping a part of the body for diagnostic purposes.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pleximetry
Literary usage of Pleximetry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Clinical Journal (1898)
"But as we proceed you will perceive that it is less abstruse than the title might
imply, and you will live to regard an acquaintance with pleximetry, ..."
2. A Manual of auscultation and percussion: As Applied to the Diagnosis of by Jean Baptiste Philippe Barth (1860)
"By affording similar results, pleximetry is particularly useful in establishing
the existense of pregnancy in cases where auscultation fails to detect ..."
3. A Handbook of Medical Diagnosis: For the Use of Practitioners and Students by James Cornelius Wilson (1915)
"Mediate or Indirect Percussion — pleximetry.—The blow is delivered not directly
upon the ... Instrumental pleximetry is much used among European physicians. ..."
4. An Introduction to the History of Medicine by Fielding Hudson Garrison (1914)
"... including a treatise on pleximetry (1866), and, although a "poet," affected
an exaggerated and pedantic nomenclature, employing such high-sounding terms ..."
Other Resources:
