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A respirometer is a device which is used to measure respiration, where organisms exchange carbon dioxide and oxygen as part of their metabolism.
Wright respirometer. Definition: an inferential meter that measures tidal and minute volume from the number of revolutions of a vane rotated by the gas stream as the latter passes through ten tangential slots in a cylindric stator ring to turn a flat two-bladed rotor; also called a Wright spirometer.