Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An instrument used as a substitute for the leech. It consists of a cupping-glass, to which a scarificator and an exhausting syringe are attached.
Dunglison.
Wiktionary
- n. medicine A cupping glass to which are attached a scarificator and an exhausting syringe.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Med.) A cupping glass to which are attached a scarificator and an exhausting syringe.
Etymologies
- From the French bdellomètre, from the Ancient Greek βδέλλα (bdella, "leech") + the French -mètre ("-meter"), itself from the Ancient Greek μέτρον (metron, "(something used to) measure"). (Wiktionary)
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Lists
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Meters
knitmeter, butyrometer, cathetometer, handsometer, meter maid, spammeter, ceilometer, dilatometer, bdellometer, bolo-tie-meter, fathommeter, meet-and-greet-meter and 117 more...
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It Has a Name??
Yes. Yes it does.
aglet, armsaye, scroop, rowel, ferrule, rasceta, chanking, philtrum, frenulum, keeper, agelast, punt and 285 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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quackery
snake oil & leeches
nostrum, quack, charlatan, snake oil, cure-all, liniment, patent medicine, panacea, shill, alchemy, humours, leech and 16 more...
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Miscellany, pt. b
blowball, blackdamp, bedfast, basifixed, bee willikers, baby bee-lips, bilabiate, ballyhooly, ballyhoo of blazes, balneary, balaniferous, barysphere and 70 more...
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uselessness Wow, I think you blinded me with that list. ;-) Oct 11, 2007
trivet "Science", eh? Oct 11, 2007
reesetee I think the scarificator part sounds worse. Oct 11, 2007
uselessness It's science! Oct 11, 2007
reesetee Wow. Oct 11, 2007
sionnach a mechanical leech, for the purpose of leeching blood Oct 11, 2007