anapnograph
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French anapnographe, coined by the device's inventors Léon Bergeon and M. Kastus in the 1860s,[1] from Ancient Greek ἀναπνοή (anapnoḗ, “recovery of breath; respiration”) (from ἀναπνέω (anapnéō, “to draw breath”), from ἀνα- (ana-, “up”) + πνέω (pnéō, “to breathe”)) + French -graphe (see -graph).
Noun
[edit]anapnograph (plural anapnographs)
- A form of spirometer.
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Léon Bergeon (1869) Recherches sur la physiologie médicale de la respiration à l'aide d'un nouvel appareil enregistreur, l'anapnographe: spiromètre écrivant [Research on the medical physiology of respiration with the aid of a new recording device, the anapnograph: a spirometer that writes], Paris: Adrien Delahaye