pleximeter

Meaning

Noun

  • A small, hard, elastic plate, as of ivory, bone, or rubber, placed in contact with the body to receive the blow, in examination by mediate percussion.

Origin

  • From Ancient Greek πλῆξις ("stroke, percussion") -meter.

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