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Definition of Spirograph
1. Noun. A measuring instrument for recording the depth and rapidity of breathing movements.
Definition of Spirograph
1. n. An instrument for recording the respiratory movements, as the sphygmograph does those of the pulse.
Definition of Spirograph
1. Proper noun. a geometric drawing toy consisting of a set of plastic gears and toothed rings ¹
2. Noun. (medicine) an instrument for measuring and recording the depth and rapidity of breathing movements ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Spirograph
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Spirograph
Literary usage of Spirograph
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Laboratory guide in physiology by Winfield Scott Hall (1897)
"These are various and consist of scales, meter tape, calipers, dynamometers,
spirometer, etc., etc. Fig. 17 shows the belt-spirograph ..."
2. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1868)
"... would be of the slightest use as a spirograph. And the reason of this is very
obvious. As most of the readers of the Lancet are aware, ..."
3. A Textbook of physiology by Winfield Scott Hall (1899)
"... average in depth of inspiration and some beyond the average in extent of
expiration. 4. The Belt Spirograph.—Various forms of the belt spiro- graph or ..."
4. A Laboratory Guide in Physiology by Winfield Scott Hall (1897)
"The belt-spirograph. The apparatus here described was contrived to overcome as
... The Belt-spirograph for quantitative determination of variations in chest ..."
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