tonometer
IPA: tˈɑnʌmitɝ
noun
- An instrument used to measure tension or pressure, especially inside the eye.
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Examples of "tonometer" in Sentences
- Pulse pressure analysis using Labchart and a tonometer
- Tests done with a tonometer are quick and painless though some people find them uncomfortable.
- Then they use a device called a Goldmann tonometer to measure the pressure of the eye by pressing gently against it.
- Non-Mydriatic and Mydriatic Retinal cameras, and full auto-tonometer and full auto-ref keratometers, all of which will be on display at the show.
- The (Schiotz) tonometer was used daily for 70 consecutive days and never registered more than 12-14 mm.Hg. The man had been blinded by wood alcohol.
- The tension has never been noted at more than Plus T (?), and when taken with the tonometer varied from 9 to 32 mm. for the worse eye, and 13 to 24 mm. for the other.
- The majority of these involved the use of the lungs as a tonometer, equilibrating the oxygen or the CO2 of the lungs with that of the incoming pulmonary arterial blood.
- The KAT uses the 'Goldmann method' of measuring intraocular pressure of the eye, calculating the force required to flatten a constant area of the cornea using a special prism mounted on the tonometer head and placed against the cornea.
- He checked his results with the tonometer after 200, 500 and 1,000 pressures, and found that even in normal eyeballs such massage was followed by a fall of intra-ocular tension, the average being nearly 9 mm. after a thousand pressures.
- A third type which will come to be more generally recognized, as the tonometer comes to be more widely used, includes cases in which there is little beside the increase of intra-ocular tension to justify their mention in a discussion on glaucoma.
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