See Also: hemautography(medicine)

Porte (iou) and hemautography (medicine)


Porte (iou)



Porte noun. E17.
[French (la Sublime) Porte (the exalted) gate translating Turkish official title of the central office of the Ottoman Government.]
Hist. More fully the Sublime Porte, the Ottoman Porte. The Ottoman court at Constantinople; transf. the Turkish government.

hemautography (medicine)


hemautography
<physiology> The obtaining of a curve similar to a pulse curve or sphygmogram by allowing the blood from a divided artery to strike against a piece of paper.

Source: Websters Dictionary