plexor

English

Etymology

From Hellenistic Ancient Greek πλῆξις (plêxis, “stroke”) + -or, after flexor etc.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈplɛksə/

Noun

plexor (plural plexors)

1. (medicine, now rare) A hammer (or other instrument) used to test a person's reflexes. [from 19th c.]
   • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 71:

     Crowded in amongst his pocket's pens was the rubber head of a diagnostic plexor.