anapnograph

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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)

  1. A form of spirometer.

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References[edit]

  1. ^ 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