pulmonary docimasia

English

Noun

pulmonary docimasia (uncountable)

  1. (medicine, archaic) A medical examination of a dead baby's lungs using a microscope, to determine whether air had entered them, and thus whether it was a case of infanticide.
    Synonyms: lung float test, hydrostatic test
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