English Explanatory Dictionary

pneumotonometer

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An ophthalmic instrument that is used to measure the intraocular pressure using a balanced air pressure (sometimes achieved by blowing a puff of air at the cornea and measuring the subsequent flattening for the corneal surface)

Word forms

pneumotonometer pneumotonometers

Etymology

From pneumo- + tonometer.

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on P Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary