What's the difference between meilograph and opisometer?
Meilograph
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Opisometer
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(n.) An instrument with a revolving wheel for measuring a curved line, as on a map.
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(1) In 18 patients, the remaining small bowel length from the duodenojejunal flexure had been measured at operation and found to be less than 200 cm; this was compared with a measurement obtained by one observer using an opisometer on a subsequent barium follow-through (BaFT) examination.
(2) Twenty extracted maxillary first molars were cross sectioned every millimeter, and each section was photographed, projected and measured with a calibrated opisometer.
(3) The molars were cross-sectioned at 1-mm increments, and each section photographed, projected and measured with a calibrated opisometer.