the object placed between a patient's body and a plexor in the diagnostic technique of mediate percussion
pleximeter in American English
(plekˈsɪmɪtər)
noun
Medicine
a small, thin plate, as of ivory, placed against the body to mediate the blow of a plexor
Derived forms
pleximetric (ˌpleksəˈmetrɪk)
adjective
pleximetry
noun
Word origin
[1835–45; ‹ Gk plêxi(s) stroke, percussion + -meter]This word is first recorded in the period 1835–45. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: catch-up, communism, grandstand, hybridize, serial-meter is a combining form meaning “measure,” used in the names of instruments measuringquantity, extent, degree, etc. Other words that use the affix -meter include: micrometer, radiometer, spectrometer, telemeter, thermometer