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organ

Definitions

noun

  1. a free-reeded instrument with a piano keyboard in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows
  2. a periodical that is published by a special interest group
  3. a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function
  4. a government agency or instrument devoted to the performance of some specific function
  5. wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard
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Examples

The pain in his side was crushing, as if there was a steel hand in there relentlessly closing on an organ.

Prior to the 19th century, the region's social structure - outside of a few major cities, including Baghdad - was organized primarily around relatively isolated tribal confederations.

I must give one instance; he throws doubts and sneers at my saying that the ovigerous frena of cirripedes have been converted into branchiae, because I have not found them to be branchiae; whereas he himself admits, before I wrote on cirripedes, without the least hesitation, that their organs are branchiae.

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plethysmograph

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noun

  1. a measuring instrument for measuring changes in volume of a part or organ or whole body (usually resulting from fluctuations in the amount of blood it contains)

Examples

The fellow is asked to undergo body plethysmography to understand the basic principles.

Thus, the flows estimated in a body plethysmograph may not be fully available to the flow-limited subject.

Their degree of sexual arousal was measured by penile plethysmography, which precisely measures and records male tumescence.

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