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Definition of Algometer
1. Noun. Device for measuring pain caused by pressure.
Definition of Algometer
1. n. An instrument for measuring sensations of pain due to pressure. It has a piston rod with a blunted tip which is pressed against the skin.
Definition of Algometer
1. Noun. An instrument for measuring pain-inducing stimuli, and the sensitivity to such stimuli ¹
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Definition of Algometer
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Medical Definition of Algometer
1. Synonym: algesiometer. Origin: algo-+ G. Metron, measure (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Algometer
Literary usage of Algometer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Mental Examination Methods by Shepherd Ivory Franz (1919)
"Cattell algometer. A, hard rubber stimulating surface; B, handle; C, scale; D,
scale pointer. sure is exerted by the experimenter and when the subject ..."
2. Nervous and mental disease monograph series (1912)
"Cattell algometer. A, hard rubber stimulating surface; B, handle; C, scale; D,
scale pointer. the skin. This stimulation surface has an area of about 25 sq. ..."
3. Manual of Mental and Physical Tests: A Book of Directions Compiled with by Guy Montrose Whipple (1914)
"1155-6) algometer, the rate of application of pressure is difficult to control
... The chief merit of the pain-balance, or balance-algometer, as employed by ..."
4. The Mental Traits of Sex: An Experimental Investigation of the Normal Mind by Helen Bradford Thompson Woolley (1903)
"algometer test. Left temple.1 Abscissas — pressure in grams. ... 14 and 15,
because one woman was unwilling to submit to the algometer tests, ..."
5. Experimental Study of Children: Including Anthropometrical and Psycho by Arthur MacDonald (1899)
"The hand algometer in fig. 30 is a design by Professor Cattell, ... algometer.
(Cattell.) Va against the palm or other part of the hand, and as soon as the ..."
6. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1899)
"The instruments used in these experiments were a temple algometer and a hand ...
The temple algometer was designed by Arthur MacDonald, specialist in the US ..."
7. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1913)
"Goldstein investigated the deep pressure sense in many cases of tabes, by means
of the algometer of Cattell. His conclusions showed that the curve of the ..."
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