pho'nophore

[G. phone, sound, -|- phoros, a bearer.] I. One of the o icles of the ear. 2. A form of binaural stethoscope with a bell-shaped chest piece into which project the recurved extremities of the sound-tubes. light, + grapho, I write.] The recording on a moving photographic plate of the movements imparted to a diaphragm by sound-waves. phone, sound, + pneuma, air.] Phono ma age combined with the forcing of a jet of air into the external auditory meatus. condition in which the hearing of certain sounds gives rise to a subjective sensation of color. An instrument for photographing the heart sounds: the vibrations are transmitted to. a film.