NOUN
- 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)
How To Use plethysmograph In A Sentence
- The fellow is asked to undergo body plethysmography to understand the basic principles. Pediatric Allergy and Immunology Fellowship
- 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. Think Progress » Anti-Gay Evangelical Leader Resigns After Accusations of Gay Affair
- It could get me strapped to a penile plethysmograph, cause my computer to be seized, have my name smeared in the news, subject me to an expensive trial and falsely brand me as a pervert. Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
- Castrating adolescent pedophiles based on the evidence of mandatory penile plethysmography would probably prevent some child from being molested, but hardly seems like an ethical solution. SEX OFFENDER AT THIS RESIDENCE » Sociological Images
- Penile plethysmograph and visual reaction time are applied to ass ess pedophilia.
- Functional respiratory variables in the animal models were measured with a double-chamber plethysmograph as described.
- Subsequently, Mead introduced volume displacement whole body plethysmography, which measured volume changes due to gas compression and decompression.
- Lennox and coworkers found that drift of an inductive plethysmography signal was only 22% of the drift arising from changes in temperature within a body plethysmograph.
- The oscillator unit of the inductive plethysmograph is temperature-sensitive, which can give rise to drift.