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Definition of "sphygmograph" []

  • An instrument for graphically recording the form, strength, and variations of the arterial pulse. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "sphygmograph" in a sentence
  • "As a student she constructed a sphygmograph for recording the pulse in arteries."
  • "Times with numerous plates of sphygmograph tracings (I write subject to correction) and an admirable new terminology, that did the thing for him."
  • "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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