plexor

A hammer (or other instrument) used to test a person's reflexes.

Noun

  1. A hammer (or other instrument) used to test a person's reflexes.
    • Crowded in amongst his pocket's pens was the rubber head of a diagnostic plexor. - 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 71:

Origin

From Hellenistic Ancient Greek πλῆξις (plêxis, “stroke”) + -or, after flexor etc.

Forms

plexors