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- noun biology A device that is used to detect the presence of
life by detecting and measuring minute amounts of evolvedcarbon dioxide
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The biometer applied to man has made it possible to reconstruct the absolutely average man, that is to say, the man whose body gives average measurements in every part; and these average measurements have been found, by means of the statistical and morphological studies of medicine, to correspond to "normality."
Spontaneous Activity in Education Maria Montessori 1911
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