Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An instrument for graphically recording the form, strength, and variations of the arterial pulse.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An instrument which, when applied over an artery, traces on a piece of paper moved by clockwork a curve which indicates the changes of tension of the blood within.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physiol.) An instrument which, when applied over an artery, indicates graphically the movements or character of the pulse. See
sphygmogram .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine a mechanical device used to measure
blood pressure andpulse
Etymologies
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Examples
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As a student she constructed a sphygmograph for recording the pulse in arteries.
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Times with numerous plates of sphygmograph tracings (I write subject to correction) and an admirable new terminology, that did the thing for him.
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Dr. Johnson holds the opinion that a pen in the hand of a writer serves, in a modified degree, the same end as the needle in the first-named form of the sphygmograph and that in such a person's handwriting one can see by projecting the letters, greatly magnified, on a screen, the scarcely perceptible turns and quivers made in the lines by the spontaneous action of that person's peculiar pulsation.
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Such a chart is obtained for medical purposes by means of a sphygmograph, an instrument fitted to the patient's forearm and supplied with a needle, which can be so arranged as to record automatically on a prepared sheet of paper the peculiar force and frequency of the pulsation.
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The deacon says that, wonderful as the sphygmograph is, the pulse itself is more wonderful still -- a fact which no good ST.
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There's a great deal going on in the world that you and I know very little about; but such things as the sphygmograph give us a hint of the achievements of science in its efforts to help God's children out of their many ills and pains.
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I am only a Jack-in-the-Pulpit, you know, quite dependent upon what the birds and other bipeds tell me, so you cannot expect a full description and explanation of the sphygmograph here.
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He finds time to contribute to the _Atlantic Monthly_ pieces of styptic prose that make zigzags on the sphygmograph of the editor.
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Marey (b. 1830; blood pressure, mechanism of the heart and the invention of the sphygmograph).
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Such a chart is obtained for medical purposes by means of a sphygmograph, an instrument fitted to the patient's forearm and supplied with a needle, which can be so arranged as to record automatically on
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