pulmonary docimasia
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
5
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A medical examination of a dead baby's lungs using a microscope, to determine whether air had entered them, and thus whether it was a case of infanticide.
Archaic; Uncountable
Usage
Synonyms
lung float test
hydrostatic test