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pneumatoscope (medicine)


pneumatoscope
<instrument> 1. Obsolete term for an instrument for measuring the extent of the respiratory excursions of the chest.

Synonym: pneoscope.

2. Obsolete term for an instrument for use in auscultatory percussion, the percussion sounds of the chest being heard at the mouth.

Synonym: pneumoscope.

Origin: G. Pneuma, air, + skopeo, to examine


phragmoplast (iou)



phragmoplast noun. E20.
[from (the same root as) PHRAGMA + -O- + -PLAST.]
Biology. A set of microtubules which forms during mitosis in some plant cells as a barrel-shaped structure joining the two sets of chromosomes after their separation to the poles.
phragmo'plastic adjective M20.