sphygmograph

As a student she constructed a sphygmograph for recording the pulse in arteries.

Hertha Ayrton. 2009

Times with numerous plates of sphygmograph tracings (I write subject to correction) and an admirable new terminology, that did the thing for him.

The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004

Dr. Johnson holds the opinion that a pen in the hand of a writer serves, in a modified degree, the same end as the needle in the first-named form of the sphygmograph and that in such a person's handwriting one can see by projecting the letters, greatly magnified, on a screen, the scarcely perceptible turns and quivers made in the lines by the spontaneous action of that person's peculiar pulsation.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

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.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2003

The deacon says that, wonderful as the sphygmograph is, the pulse itself is more wonderful still -- a fact which no good ST.

St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878 Various

There's a great deal going on in the world that you and I know very little about; but such things as the sphygmograph give us a hint of the achievements of science in its efforts to help God's children out of their many ills and pains.

St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878 Various

I am only a Jack-in-the-Pulpit, you know, quite dependent upon what the birds and other bipeds tell me, so you cannot expect a full description and explanation of the sphygmograph here.

St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878 Various

He finds time to contribute to the _Atlantic Monthly_ pieces of styptic prose that make zigzags on the sphygmograph of the editor.

Shandygaff Christopher Morley 1923

Marey (b. 1830; blood pressure, mechanism of the heart and the invention of the sphygmograph).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

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

The Silent Bullet 1908

With the kymographion and sphygmograph (blood pressure) instruments, time was recorded graphically at different scales on the physical surface of a rotating drum or on a paper surface, by manually speeding up or slowing down the mechanical instrument.

The Two-Century Quest to Quantify Our Senses The MIT Press Reader 2023