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An apparatus for measuring force or power; especially, muscular effort of men or animals, or the power developed by a motor, or that required to operate machinery.

Relating to a dynamometer, or to the measurement of force doing work; as, dynamometrical instruments.

The art or process of measuring forces doing work.

An instrument for measuring the strength of electro-dynamic currents.

An instrument for measuring the force or amount of endosmotic action.

Pertaining to, or designed for, the measurement of endosmotic action.

Having equal moments of inertia.

A thermometer specially constructed for measuring temperetures at a depth below the surface of the ground.

Same as Hemadrometer.

Same as Hemadrometry.

Same as Hemadynamometer.

Same as Hemadynamometer.

An apparatus for measuring the amount of hemoglobin in a fluid, by comparing it with a solution of known strength and of normal color.

Same as Hemadrometer.

Same as Hemadynamometer.

An instrument for measuring the velocity with which the blood moves in the arteries.

The act of measuring the velocity with which the blood circulates in the arteries; hæmotachometry.

An instrument by which the pressure of the blood in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will raise a column of mercury; -- called also a hæmomanometer.

An instrument to measure the velocity of a liquid current by the force of its impact.

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