Crossword clues for sphygmomanometer
sphygmomanometer
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A device used to measure blood pressure.
WordNet
n. a pressure gauge for measuring blood pressure
Wikipedia
A sphygmomanometer, blood pressure meter, blood pressure monitor, or blood pressure gauge is a device used to measure blood pressure, composed of an inflatable cuff to collapse and then release the artery under the cuff in a controlled manner, and a mercury or mechanical manometer to measure the pressure. It is always used in conjunction with a means to determine at what pressure blood flow is just starting, and at what pressure it is unimpeded. Manual sphygmomanometers are used in conjunction with a stethoscope.
A sphygmomanometer consists of an inflatable cuff, a measuring unit (the mercury manometer, or aneroid gauge), and a mechanism for inflation which may be a manually operated bulb and valve or a pump operated electrically.
Usage examples of "sphygmomanometer".
Behind him were more machines, including an electrocardiograph and a sphygmomanometer, and on the overhead in front of him was a television monitor showing a color image of the stern of the boat.
He removed other things from the bag too: a length of flexible rubber tubing, a sphygmomanometer for monitoring blood pressure, two small bottles of amber-colored fluid, and a packet of disposable hypodermic syringes.
Out of the corner of her eye she could see her coiled up stethoscope and the calibrated case of the sphygmomanometer waiting to be tidied away.
While he was taking her pressure, the widow observed the dial on the sphygmomanometer with a childish curiosity.
Kate pulled a stethoscope and sphygmomanometer out of one of her travel bags.
Ames commented, then began wrapping the sleeve of a sphygmomanometer around his upper left arm.
And it had been his wife who had awakened him briefly a while ago to kiss him good-bye, rather than one of the nurses arriving abruptly to strap a sphygmomanometer around his arm, insert a thermometer under his tongue, or stick a clip on his finger to check his oxygen absorption.
For this he left the cubicle to fetch the sphygmomanometer and as he did so he thought he heard a very faint scraping at his consulting room door.
Probably trying to sell sphygmomanometers to the Feds or something like that.
Doctor Kate, the house physician, kept glancing over wistfully at this patient in need, but could not stop what she was doing with her sphygmomanometer to help Priscilla.