See Also: responsivity(medicine)
commode(1)(dictionary)
commode(2)(dictionary)
commode(encyclopedia)
commode(dictionary)

commode(2) (iou) and responsivity (medicine)


commode(2) (iou)



commode noun. L17.
[French, use as noun of commode adjective: see COMMODE adjective.]
A tall head-dress formerly worn by women, consisting of a wire framework covered with silk or lace. L17.
A chest of drawers or chiffonier of the decorative kind found esp. in 18th-cent. drawing-rooms. M18.
A lavatory, a privy. arch. rare. E19.
A chamber-pot enclosed in a chair or box with a cover. M19.

responsivity (medicine)


responsivity
<microscopy> Similar to sensitivity, a rating of the output current from a camera tube divided by the incident flux of light, but expressed in different units.