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Definition of Sphygmomanometer
1. Noun. A pressure gauge for measuring blood pressure.
Definition of Sphygmomanometer
1. Noun. A device used to measure blood pressure. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Sphygmomanometer
1. An instrument used for determining arterial blood pressure indirectly. The two types are aneroid (dial face) and mercury (column). (27 Sep 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sphygmomanometer
Literary usage of Sphygmomanometer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Diagnostics of Internal Medicine: A Clinical Treatise Upon the by Glentworth Reeve Butler (1909)
"THE sphygmomanometer The sphygmomanometer.—The sphygmomanometer is an instrument
of great value which has lately been added to the armamentarium of the ..."
2. Blood-pressure, from the Clinical Standpoint by Francis Ashley Faught (1916)
"METHOD OF EMPLOYING THE MODERN sphygmomanometer Having already considered the
subject of blood-pressure in the abstract and having reviewed the critera ..."
3. Therapeutics of the Circulation by Thomas Lauder Brunton (1908)
"Most recent form of Von Basch's aneroid sphygmomanometer, 67 F1G. ... Von Basch's
sphygmomanometer and stand, drawn from one in author's possession, 64 F1G. ..."
4. Essentials of Laboratory Diagnosis: Designed for Students and Practitioners by Francis Ashley Faught (1909)
"The systolic pressure, as indicated by the sphygmomanometer, represents the
greatest amount of ... The sphygmomanometer bearing the author's name (see Figs. ..."
5. Essentials of Laboratory Diagnosis: Designed for Students and Practitioners by Francis Ashley Faught (1912)
"The sphygmomanometer now ranks with urinalysis in the examination of pregnant women.
In the blood-pressure test we have a most valuable means of detecting ..."
6. Blood-pressure, from the Clinical Standpoint by Francis Ashley Faught (1916)
"CHAPTER III THE PRINCIPLE OF THE sphygmomanometer THE INSTRUMENTAL ESTIMATION OF
BLOOD-PRESSURE The basis of modern sphygmomanometry is founded upon ..."
7. Essays on the Internal Secretions, 1920: Comprising the Winning by Henry Robert Harrower (1921)
"He will find the indications for the use of the sphygmomanometer, generally
speaking, more frequent than those for the stethoscope and that when both ..."
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