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sphygmomanometer

sphygmomanometer

English

Mechanical sphygmomanometer with aneroid manometer and stethoscope

Alternative forms

sphygmomanometre (nonstandard)

Noun

Digital sphygmomanometer

sphygmomanometer ‎(plural sphygmomanometers)

A device used to measure blood pressure.

Synonyms

blood-pressure cuff
blood pressure gage
blood pressure gauge
blood-pressure meter
blood pressure meter
sphygmometer

Related terms

Translations

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

Galician: esfigmomanómetro m
German: Blutdruckmessgerät (de) n
Italian: sfigmomanometro (it) m
Japanese: 血圧計 ‎(けつあつけい, ketsuatsukei)
Malay: sfigmomanometer
Portuguese: esfigmomanómetro m (Portugal), esfigmomanômetro (pt) m (Brazil)
Russian: сфигмомано́метр (ru) m ‎(sfigmomanómetr), тоно́метр (ru) m ‎(tonómetr)
Spanish: esfigmomanómetro m

See also

stethoscope