In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
PLEXIMETER
pleximeter, plessimeter
(noun) a small thin metal plate held against the body and struck with a plexor in percussive examinations
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
pleximeter (plural pleximeters)
(medicine) A small, hard, elastic plate, as of ivory, bone, or rubber, placed in contact with the body to receive the blow, in examination by mediate percussion.
Source: Wiktionary
Plex*im"e*ter, n. Etym: [Gr. -meter.] (Med.)
Definition: A small, hard, elastic plate, as of ivory, bone, or rubber, placed in contact with body to receive the blow, in examination by mediate percussion. [Written also plexometer.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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