sphygmomanometer

English

Mechanical sphygmomanometer with aneroid manometer and stethoscope

Digital sphygmomanometer

sphygmo- (“pulse”) +‎ manometer

sphygmomanometer (plural sphygmomanometers)

A device used to measure blood pressure.
- 1882, J. Graham Brown, Medical diagnosis:
  Sphygmomanometer. — Very recently, Professor S. von Basch has introduced* an instrument, to which he gives the above name, for the purpose of estimating the blood-pressure in the human subject, and which has undoubtedly considerable clinical value.
- 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 332:
  Diagnostic monitoring of the pulse became linked to study of blood pressure, for which the sphygmomanometer was devised.

device to measure blood pressure

Catalan: esfigmomanòmetre m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 血壓計, 血压计 (hyut³ ngaat³ gai³)
Mandarin: 血壓計／血压计 (zh) (xiěyājì)
Czech: sfygmomanometr m
Dutch: sfygmomanometer m
Esperanto: sfigmomanometro
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 (ja) (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 (es) m, esfingomanómetro (es) m, tensiómetro m, baumanómetro m, manguito de la presión arterial m, brazalete de presión sanguínea m (Mexico), brazalete de presión arterial m (Mexico)