The instrument described measures the pressure of gases or liquids that cause bulging of an elastic membrane. The results are independent of the stresses in the membrane. The tympanometer is particularly adapted to measuring abdominal gas pressure, without injury to animals.
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Max Kleiber (1945) studied this question.
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