What's the difference between planimeter and platometer?
Planimeter
Definition:
(n.) An instrument for measuring the area of any plane figure, however irregular, by passing a tracer around the bounding line; a platometer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Left ventricular cavity and muscle areas of each image were planimetered with a light-pen system and summated for volume: total volume = sigma (areas x 3 mm).
(2) A comparative study of roentgenograms of the paranasal sinuses between 37 patients with cleft lip and palate and 37 control subjects of the same age group was done using a planimeter.
(3) A planimeter was used to measure total vessel, plaque, thrombus, and luminal cross-sectional areas at the site of plaque rupture with thrombosis in sections projected at 13.8 power magnification.
(4) Techniques for determining stone surface area include use of graph paper, planimeter or computerized image analysis.
(5) The postpneumonectomy pleural space (PS), thoracic space of the operated site (TS) and the thoracic space of the non-operated site (CTS) were measured at 3 slice levels of the brachiocephalic level, subcarinal level and lower pulmonary vein level, using a digital planimeter.
(6) By application of of Jacobj's linear method and Lange's curvimeter-planimeter method, these approximation formulas are used to calculate the surface areas with identical semi-axis and diameter values being inserted, and the results are compared with each other and the true values.
(7) Fragments of formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue were re-embedded in plastic, sectioned at 1 micron, stained with methylene blue, and studied with a Zeiss-Kontron MOP-3 microprocessor-assisted planimeter.
(8) The glottal waveforms measured by sonic-sensing pen tracing, cursor outlining, a photocell technique, and television camera scanning are presented and compared with the conventional polar planimeter method.
(9) The weight of each slice was calculated by multiplying the planimetered surface area of the LV myocardium by slice thickness and by myocardial specific gravity (1.05).
(10) A simple method for quantifying the cells adhering to frozen sections of mouse spleen using a microscope equipped with a drawing tube attachment, and a planimeter is described.
(11) A computing planimeter was employed to count the total number of neurons and measure the volume of the LC, neuronal cross-sectional area, and percent of neuronal area occupied by neuromelanin in the brains of 39 subjects; 13 "normative", 15 leucotomized schizophrenic (most had died in the preneuroleptic era), and 11 leucotomized non-schizophrenic control patients, ranging in age from 11 to 94 years.
(12) The integrator-derived values for WOB correlated well with planimeter-derived values (r = 0.97).
(13) A planimeter was used to measure artery, plaque, thrombus and luminal cross-sectional area at the site of plaque rupture with thrombosis in sections projected at x13.8 magnification.
(14) The area of open wound remaining was measured with a planimeter, and the rate of healing was plotted for each.
(15) Video fields were planimetered for epicardial ventricular cross-sectional area and ventricular pressure.
(16) Each aorta was processed blindly by four pathologists and a computerized planimeter to determine normal areas, sudanophilic areas and areas covered by plaques.
(17) The areas of MFD were measured by a polar planimeter and correlated with the involved wall, the total slice area, parietal widths and involved muscles.
(18) Areas of paradoxical motion and inward motion were planimetered in each quarter of ejection.
(19) After tracing each wound on transparency film, wound area was calculated by (1) multiplying length and width measurements with a ruler, (2) placing the transparency film over graph paper and counting the squares, (3) using a planimeter, and (4) using a digitizer.
(20) The areas of subretinal neovascularization and scotomata are measured in square millimeters with a planimeter.