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pressure plethysmograph (medicine) and fostress (iou)


pressure plethysmograph (medicine)


pressure plethysmograph


A plethysmograph applied to part of the body, e.g., a limb segment, and arranged so that volume is measured during temporary application of sufficient pressure to the part to empty its blood vessels, a body plethysmograph in which changes of body volume are measured in terms of the consequent changes in air pressure in the body plethysmograph.

Volume-displacement plethysmograph, a plethysmograph, usually a body plethysmograph, in which changes in volume displace a corresponding volume into or out of a very compliant measuring device, such as a Krogh spirometer or integrating flowmeter.


fostress (iou)



fostress noun. E17.
[formed as FOSTERLING + -ESS1.]
A female fosterer.