kinemometer

Example Sentences

• "He suggested that the Lawson kinemometer, a quantitative device for testing the Achilles' tendon jerks, might be a useful method for surveying families for hypothyroidism."
• "Typical reflexes of hypothyroid and hyperthyroid children are described; the kinemometer proved useful in diagnosis and treatment of thyroid disorders."
• "The development and a practical application of an electromagnetic device (kinemometer) for measuring the reflex speed of the Achilles' reflex also has merit in diagnosing thyroid dysfunction (24) ."
• "Measurement of the ankle reflex time by means of a kinemometer has been shown to be a useful aid in the clinical diagnosis of hypothyroidism."
• "M. Jacquemier, inventor of the kinemometer, dynamometer, and other useful appliances, gained the Plumey Prize; and M. Marcel Deprez the Fourneyron, for his ingenious electric experiments on the Chemin-de-fer du Nord."
• "The bureau's researches in the war involving electrical principles covered many subjects—the location of enemy batteries by means of sound-recording mechanisms, the electrical control of airplane guns to fire between the propeller blades, time studies of gunfiring, variation of gun pressures, ejection-velocity studies by recoil meters, the development of kinemometers to measure the jumps and whip of a gun on firing, the measurement of projectile velocities inside the gun, and scientific studies of the gun blast."