Word Meanings - HAEMATOSCOPE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A hæmoscope.

Related words: (words related to HAEMATOSCOPE)

• ANEMOSCOPE
  An instrument which shows the direction of the wind; a wind vane; a weathercock; -- usually applied to a contrivance consisting of a vane above, connected in the building with a dial or index with pointers to show the changes of the wind.
• CYMOSCOPE
  Any device for detecting the presence of electric waves. The influence of electric waves on the resistance of a particular kind of electric circuit, on the magnetization of steel, on the polarization of an electrolytic cell, or on the
• SPHYGMOSCOPE
  See SPHYGMOGRAPH
• HAEMOSCOPE
  An instrument devised by Hermann, for regulating and measuring the thickness of a layer of blood for spectroscopic examination.
• POLEMOSCOPE
  An opera glass or field glass with an oblique mirror arranged for seeing objects do not lie directly before the eye; -- called also diagonal, or side, opera glass.
• SEISMOSCOPE
  A seismometer.
• PHOTOCHROMOSCOPE
  1. A device for giving shifting effects of color to a photograph. The unmounted print, made translucent, is illuminated from behind with colored light. 2. A combination of three optical lanterns for projecting objects on a screen in the colors
• THERMOSCOPE
  An instrument for indicating changes of temperature without indicating the degree of heat by which it is affected; especially, an instrument contrived by Count Rumford which, as modified by Professor Leslie, was afterward called the differential
• OPHTHALMOSCOPE
  An instrument for viewing the interior of the eye, particularly the retina. Light is thrown into the eye by a mirror (usually concave) and the interior is then examined with or without the aid of a lens. -- Oph*thal`mo*scop"ic, a.