meter-, metro-, metr-, -metrical, -metrically, -metron, -metric, -metrist, -meter, -meters, -metry, -metre

An instrument for measuring sensitivity to touch or tactile sensitivity; usually, consisting of calibrated hairs or filaments.

Used humorously, an apparatus for measuring pleasure.

An instrument devised originally for measuring the diameter of the sun; now it is employed for delicate measurements of the distance and relative direction of two stars too far apart to be easily measured in the field of view of an ordinary telescope.

The use of a telescope with a movable split-lens objective, primarily to measure the angular distance between two stars; originally used to measure the diameter of the sun.

The counting of blood cells using a hemacytometer.

1. An instrument for counting the blood cells in a measured volume of blood.
2. A device used in manual blood counts, consisting of a microscopic slide with a depression whose base is marked in grids, and into which a measured volume of a sample of blood or bacterial culture is placed and covered with a cover glass.

The number of cells and formed blood elements in the squares is counted under a microscope and used as a representative sample for calculating the unit volume; also called, counting cell, counting chamber, and hemocytometer.

An instrument for measuring the hemoglobin of the blood; hæmochromometer: A medical device called a hemoglobinometer was used by Dr. Thompson to determine the concentration of haemoglobin in Sally's blood.

The measurement of the hemoglobin in the blood: Dr. Mason checked the hemoglobinometry in Grace's blood after the haemoglobin had been changed to cyanmethemoglobin.

An instrument that measures the speed of blood flow.

The measurement of the speed of blood flow.