Dr. Buro's esthesiometer

Tactile sensors--Measurement--Equipment and supplies

Touch--instrumentation

Sensation--instrumentation

Diagnostic and Measurement

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Used to measure sensation upon the skin and thus to determine whether the condition of tactile sensibility is normal or altered

Two silver, thin shafts that are joined together by a hinge where the instrument can expand. The brass measuring device is attached to one silver shaft, which is used to determine "the degree of sensation".

Buro, Dr.

Health Sciences Library

State University of New York at Buffalo

19th cent.

M & R Gordon (Firm)

Cravens, Annette

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14 cm.

Measuring Instrument

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Still image

07.10.12.3

LIB-HSL001

Esthesiometer

9/28/2009

Silver and brass