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Stethometer (medicine) and Fischer's symptom (medicine)


Stethometer (medicine)


stethometer
<physiology> An apparatus for measuring the external movements of a given point of the chest wall, during respiration; also called thoracometer.

Origin: Gr. Chest.

Source: Websters Dictionary


Fischer's symptom (medicine)


Fischer's symptom -->
Fischer's sign
<clinical sign> An obsolete sign: in tuberculosis of the mediastinal or peri-bronchial glands, after bending the patient's head as far back as possible, auscultation over the manubrium sterni will sometimes reveal a continuous loud murmur caused by the pressure of the enlarged glands on the large mediastinal vessels.

Synonym: Fischer's symptom.