sphygmo-comb. form

1876 Catal. Special Loan Coll. Sci. Apparatus S. Kensington Mus. 521 Sphygmodynameter, an apparatus for estimating the pressure of the blood [etc.].

1887 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 14 May 1045/1 Dr. Suckling also showed a number of sphygmograms.

1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 815 A pamphlet..giving descriptions and sphygmograms of such pulses in hysterical cases.

1860 Illustr. London News 14 Apr. 362/3 A new sphygmograph or pulse register.

1875 J. F. Payne Jones & Sieveking's Man. Pathol. Anat. 259 That there is an increased arterial tension..is also demonstrated by the sphygmograph.

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 389 The educated finger, or I should say fingers, are as instructive as the sphygmograph.

1870 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 378 The doctors..measuring, sphygmographing, and generally making a tool of experiment of him.

1867 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 20 July 40/1 I refer to pulse No. 10 principally for the purpose of shewing how completely the sphygmographic form may be modified by merely functional, that is to say nervous, disorder.

1879 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (ed. 2) 38 Sphygmographic studies made of it..have been thought to indicate a condition of general arterial spasm.

1895 tr. E. Ferri Criminal Sociol. 167 The sphygmographic data on the circulation of the blood.

1867 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 13 July 20/1 The full pulse (sphygmographically, that in which the second event is well marked or developed).

1885 I. B. Yeo tr. M. J. Oertel Respiratory Therapeutics ii. 472 When..inspiration is slow and cautious,..sphygmographically the pulse waves altered by the rise of blood pressure immediately succeed to the average normal ones.

1859 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) 1185 Sphygmographia,..a description of the pulse, its nature and causes: sphygmography.

1864 Reader Mar. 365/3 A memoir upon the value of Sphygmography in diagnosis.

1891 Cent. Dict. Sphygmomanometer.

1898 Daily News 12 May 6/3 Simple forms of sphygmomanometers.

1902 Amer. Jrnl. Physiol. 5 205 For sphygmomanometric work it was found necessary to pack the small space between this collar and the forearm with soft muslin to prevent a distention of the reflected bands when the pressure within was raised.

1905 Johns Hopkins Hosp. Rep. XII. 69 Points of interest in sphygmomanometry.

1962 Lancet 15 Dec. 1225/2 Many of the difficulties inherent in clinical sphygmomanometry of the newborn infant have been overcome by the latest development in photoelectric methods.

1834 Lancet 20 Sept. 936/2 At the meeting of the French Academy of Sciences on the 1st inst, M. Magendie read a report on an instrument invented by a Dr. Herisson, called the ‘sphygmometer’, and intended to measure the state of the pulse... The bottom of the instrument is placed over the radial artery, each pulsation of which elevates the mercury, and thus discloses to the eye the minutest variation of the circulation.

1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 1138/2 Sphigmometer, an instrument for counting the arterial pulsations.

1872 O. W. Holmes Poet at Breakfast-table (1885) 63 There were..Sphygmometers and Pleximeters.

1890 Practitioner June 421 (caption) Upper curve, radial pulse obtained from healthy adult male by air modified sphygmograph (sphygmometer).

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 257 In states of over-fatigue..the arterial blood is, according to sphygmometer readings, run at high pressure.

1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 673 Here sphygmometric observations are wanting, though much to be desired.

1867 Med. Rec. (N.Y.) 15 July 243/2 Herrison's and Blundell's ideas on sphygmometry were sunk in oblivion.

1908 G. Oliver Studies in Blood-pressure (ed. 2) ii. 42 Writers on sphygmometry have always grouped together all the instruments which derive their readings of the arterial pressure from a single artery.

1879 B. W. Richardson in Proc. Royal Soc. 29 70 The Sphygmophone.

1889 H. E. Handerson tr. J. H. Baas Outl. Hist. Med. 1016 It has been combined with an electric chime of bells (sphygmophone) of Upham.

1881 Med. Temp. Jrnl. 13 75 The pulse is sixty-eight, and the three sphygmophonic indications are present.

1856 Lancet 8 Nov. 510/1 The numerous cases of disease of the heart which have come under the care of Dr. Scott Alison..have afforded abundant means of applying..the new sphygmoscope, or cardioscope, (contrived by that physician).

1859 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) 1185/2 Sphygmoscopium,..a sphygmoscope.

1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 2849 Sphygmoscopes; stethogoniometer; and hydrophone, used in chest diseases.