Benedict-roth apparatus
(Science: apparatus, physiology) a device employed to measure the amount of oxygen utilised in quiet breathing In the basal state for the estimation of the basal metabolic rate; the subject rebreathes oxygen through soda lime from a recording spirometer.
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