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Definition of Cryoscopy
1. Noun. the measurement of the freezing point of a liquid using a cryoscope ¹
2. Noun. (chemistry) the estimation of the molecular weight of a compound by measuring its effect on the freezing point of a solvent ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cryoscopy
1. [n -PIES]
Medical Definition of Cryoscopy
1. The determination of the freezing point of a fluid, usually blood or urine, compared with that of distilled water. Synonym: algoscopy. Origin: cryo-+ G. Skopeo, to examine (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cryoscopy
Literary usage of Cryoscopy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"This research was supported by J. Loyd for designing the amplifier circuit used
in the Petroleum Research Foundation Grant 2368-A3.5, cryoscopy apparatus. ..."
2. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"... Pressure or of the Concentration of the Urine in Total Mole-Ions, by cryoscopy
... On cryoscopy of the urine, the depression of the freezing- point ..."
3. Differential Diagnosis and Treatment of Disease: A Text-book for by Augustus Caillé (1906)
"cryoscopy is, in brief, the determination of the freezing point of fluids ...
The modus operandi of cryoscopy is described in the section on Clinical ..."
4. Examination of the Urine: A Manual for Students and Practitioners by George Alexander De Santos Saxe (1909)
"J. DETERMINING THE FREEZING-POINT OF THE URINE cryoscopy is the study of ...
The physical laws which underlie cryoscopy were discovered by Raoult in 1882, ..."
5. Manual of Vital Function Testing Methods and Their Interpretation by Wilfred Mason Barton (1917)
"cryoscopy of Blood as Test of Renal Function ... The technic of estimating
cryoscopy of the blood is not different from that applied to the urine, ..."
6. Transactions of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland by Academy of Medicine in Ireland (1907)
".While I do not think the method of cryoscopy will give all the information which
has been claimed for it by some observers, yet I believe that, ..."
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