Definition of Rheotome

1. n. An instrument which periodically or otherwise interrupts an electric current.

Definition of Rheotome

1. Noun. Any instrument that interrupts an electric current. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rheotome

1. an interrupter [n -S]

Medical Definition of Rheotome

1. An instrument which periodically or otherwise interrupts an electric current. Origin: Gr. To flow + to cut. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rheotome

rheophore
rheophores
rheophyte
rheophytes
rheoplethysmograph
rheoplethysmographs
rheoscope
rheoscopes
rheostasis
rheostat
rheostatic
rheostats
rheostosis
rheotaxes
rheotaxis
rheotome (current term)
rheotomes
rheotrope
rheotropes
rheotropic
rheotropism
rhestocythemia
rhesus
rhesus disease
rhesus factor
rhesus incompatibility
rhesus macaque
rhesus macaques
rhesus monkey
rhesus monkeys

Literary usage of Rheotome

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Electro-physiology by Wilhelm Biedermann (1898)
"We are therefore driven back upon the repeating method, with the rheotome, for the solution of the questions already familiar to us in muscle. ..."

2. Comparative Electro-physiology: A Physico-physiological Study by Jagadis Chandra Bose (1907)
"... curve showing general time . relations — Instantaneous mechanical stimulation by electro-magnetic release—Arrangement of the rheotome— Tabular statement ..."

3. Electro-physiology by Wilhelm Biedermann (1898)
"We are therefore driven back upon the repeating method, with the rheotome, for the solution of the questions already familiar to us in muscle. ..."

4. The Clinical Journal (1899)
"faradic coil (C) is a sledge constructed in the best manner, and provided with a rheotome which cannot fail at a critical moment and does not require the ..."

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