combining form on Gr. models of L. vīsu-s sight, vision, employed in a few terms, chiefly Anat., as visuo-auditory, -kinæsthetic, -psychic, -sensory adjs. Also visuometer (see quot. 1847 and cf. VISOMETER).
1847. A. Smee, Vision in Health & Dis., iii. 37. The adjustment of the exact centre of the glass to the optical centres is so important in practice, that I have contrived an instrument to measure the width accurately between these centres…. I have called the instrument itself the visuometer.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VII. 415. Destruction of the visuo-kinæsthetic commissure. Ibid., VIII. 445. The other [commissure] conducts impressions from the visual to the auditory word-centre (the visuo-auditory commissure).
1900. Phil. Trans., CXCIII. Ser. B. 168. Measurements taken from the whole of the visuo-sensory area and from the neighbouring visuo-psychic cortex.
