glucometer etymology

English word glucometer comes from English -meter (Used to form the names of measuring devices.), English gluco- (Glucose. Sweetness.)

Detailed word origin of glucometer

Dictionary entryLanguageDefinition
-meter English (eng) Used to form the names of measuring devices.
gluco- English (eng) Glucose. Sweetness.
glucometer English (eng) (medicine) A glucose meter, a device for measuring the concentration of glucose in the blood.

Words with the same origin as glucometer

Descendants of -meter
accelerometer altimeter arthrometer barometer calorimeter calorimetry dioptometer dynamometer fluorometer geoboard geometry hodometer holometer inclinometer lucimeter pantometer photopolarimeter pulsimeter spectrometer symmetry tachometer tiltmeter trig trigonometry
Descendants of gluco-
glucoamylase glucocentric glucocerebroside glucodigitoxigenin glucofuranose glucogenesis glucogenic glucohellebrin glucohydrolase glucoincretin glucokinase glucolipid glucometabolic gluconeogenesis glucopyranose glucoraphanin glucoregulation glucoregulatory glucosaccharide glucosensing glucotoxic glucotransferase phosphoglucoisomerase