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Sphygmometer   Listen
noun
Sphygmometer  n.  (Physiol.) An instrument for measuring the strength of the pulse beat; a sphygmograph.






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... end, the circulatory mechanism becomes fatigued, the vasomotor center exhausted, the tone of the blood vessels deficient, and the energy of the heart diminished, and the circulation to the cerebral arteries lessened. By means of a simple and accurate instrument (the Hill-Barnard sphygmometer), with which the pressure in the arteries of man can be easily reckoned, it has been recently determined that the arterial pressure falls just as greatly during bodily rest as during sleep. The ordinary pressure of the blood in the arteries of young and healthy men averages ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898 • Various



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