sphygmomanometer

English

Mechanical sphygmomanometer with aneroid manometer and stethoscope

sphygmo- (“pulse”) +‎ manometer

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Digital sphygmomanometer

sphygmomanometer (plural sphygmomanometers)

A device used to measure blood pressure.
- 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 332:
  Diagnostic monitoring of the pulse became linked to study of blood pressure, for which the sphygmomanometer was devised.

device to measure blood pressure

Catalan: esfigmomanòmetre m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 血壓計, 血压计 (hyut³ ngaat³ gai³)

Mandarin: 血壓計 (zh), 血压计 (zh) (xiěyājì)
Czech: sfygmomanometr m
Dutch: sfygmomanometer m
Estonian: vererõhumõõtur
Finnish: verenpainemittari (fi)
French: sphygmomanomètre (fr) m, tensiomètre (fr) m

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