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    A sphygmomanometer (/ˌsfɪɡmoʊməˈnɒmɪtər/ SFIG-moh-mə-NO-mi-tər), also known as a blood pressure monitor, or blood pressure gauge, is a device used to measure...
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    Arterial blood pressure is most commonly measured via a sphygmomanometer, which historically used the height of a column of mercury to reflect the circulating...
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  • Nebulizer Ophthalmoscope Reflex hammer Reflex hammer, queen square Sphygmomanometer, electronic Stethoscope Syringe and needle Thermometers, mercury Tongue...
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    squeezed, closer to the heart, by an aneroid gauge or a mercury-tube sphygmomanometer. Auscultation is still generally considered to be the gold standard...
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    the invention of an easy-to-use cuff-based version of the mercury sphygmomanometer for the measurement of blood pressure. Riva Rocci was born on 7 August...
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    done with an aneroid or electronic sphygmomanometer. The classic measurement device is a mercury sphygmomanometer, using a column of mercury measured...
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    to the tendon of the biceps, and, with the use of a stethoscope and sphygmomanometer (blood pressure cuff), often used to measure the blood pressure. The...
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    clinical entity came into its own with the invention of the cuff-based sphygmomanometer by Scipione Riva-Rocci in 1896. This allowed easy measurement of systolic...
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    as blood flow in arteries and veins. In combination with a manual sphygmomanometer, it is commonly used when measuring blood pressure. Less commonly,...
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    sample of Riva-Rocci's sphygmomanometer and blood pressure measurement became a vital sign. The use of the Riva-Rocci sphygmomanometer as a diagnostic tool...
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  • Rh factor phenotype "RR", a blood pressure measurement taken with a sphygmomanometer invented by Scipione Riva-Rocci RR interval (R wave to R wave interval)...
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    external percussion and palpation, blood pressure measurement (using the sphygmomanometer), change in body volumes (using plethysmograph), audiometry, eye examination...
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    indicator of a person's heart rate, the taking of blood pressure through a sphygmomanometer or the use of a stethoscope to listen to the heart for murmurs which...
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    Beurer BM26 sphygmomanometer...
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    systolic and diastolic blood pressure levels. The method requires а sphygmomanometer and а stethoscope. Due to ease and accuracy, it is considered a "gold...
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    Welch Allyn sphygmomanometer...
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    by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845–1923). The 1896 introduction of the sphygmomanometer, designed by Scipione Riva-Rocci (1863–1937), to measure blood pressure...
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    pulse. The blood pressure is taken, using either a manual or automatic sphygmomanometer or using a more invasive measurement from within the artery. Any elevation...
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    Balloon tamponade Scheme of using the Blakemore tube. There are sphygmomanometer drains connected with esophageal port, to enable inflating the balloon...
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    the arteries, and no sound is produced. Similarly, if the cuff of a sphygmomanometer is placed around a patient's upper arm and inflated to a pressure above...
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    measurements in medicine include: Blood pressure, measured with a sphygmomanometer Intraocular pressure, with a tonometer Cerebrospinal fluid pressure...
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  • (sphugmikós), (sphúxis) asphyxia, sphygmic, sphygmochronograph, sphygmograph, sphygmomanometer, sphygmus spic- spike Latin spica spica, spicate, spicose, spicosity...
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    Force gauge Gauge List of sensors Isoteniscope Pressure Piezometer Sphygmomanometer Vacuum engineering Altimeter Atmospheric pressure Barometer Brake fluid...
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    usually made by measuring blood pressure, either non-invasively with a sphygmomanometer or invasively with an arterial catheter (mostly in an intensive care...
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    to the tendon of the biceps, and, with the use of a stethoscope and sphygmomanometer (blood pressure cuff) often used to measure the blood pressure. Brachial...
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  • These include, the otoscope, thermometer, stethoscope, penlight, sphygmomanometer, bladder scanner, speculum, and eye charts. Besides the interviewing...
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  • an individual's blood pressure measures the same with Company C's sphygmomanometer as it does with Company D's, or that all shirts that should not be...
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  • reagin test RR respiratory rate blood pressure measured with a specific sphygmomanometer relative risk RRMS relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis RRP Recurrent...
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  • really came into being in 1896 with the invention of the cuff-based sphygmomanometer by Scipione Riva-Rocci in 1896, which allowed blood pressure to be...
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  • Greek μέτρον (métron), measure or property, something used to measure sphygmomanometer, thermometer -metry process of measuring, -meter + -y (see -meter)...
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