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plessimeter

plessimeter is the dated form of pleximeter.

Meaning of pleximeter

Noun

pleximeter (plural pleximeters)

  1. Something used to absorb the energy generated by the strike from a percussion hammer, during medical percussion. Usually this is simply the doctor's hand.
    1. a small, hard plate, made of ivory, bone, or rubber, placed in contact with the body to absorb such a shock.

Forms of plessimeter

pluralplessimeters

Questions about plessimeter

What is plessimeter the dated form of?
Plessimeter is the dated form of pleximeter.

Words near plessimeter in the dictionary

  1. plesiotypes
  2. Pleskot
  3. Plessey
  4. plessigraph
  5. plessigraphs
  6. plessimeter
  7. plessimeters
  8. plessimetry
  9. Plessinger
  10. Plessingers
  11. Plessis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: plessimeter (page history and authors); pleximeter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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