autoalgometer

A device that measures the pressure applied to the skin by a metal tip, used to measure pain resistance.

Noun

  1. A device that measures the pressure applied to the skin by a metal tip, used to measure pain resistance.
    • The mean pain threshold values obtained with the autoalgometer for both treated and control groups are reported in Table 2 . - 2015 July 7, Antonietta Santoro et al., “Auricular Acupressure Can Modulate Pain Threshold”,...

Origin

From auto- + algometer.

Forms

autoalgometers auto-algometer

Related

autoalgometric autoalgometry