anapnograph

A1N1A1P3N1O1G2R1A1P3H4

noun

A form of spirometer.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

nounanapnograph (plural anapnographs)

plural anapnographs

  1. A form of spirometer.

Origin

  1. French-graphe
  2. Ancient Greekἀναπνοή“recovery of breath; respiration”
  3. Frenchanapnographe
  4. Englishanapnograph

From French anapnographe, coined by the device's inventors Léon Bergeon and M. Kastus in the 1860s, 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).

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