a. Gr. σφυγμο-, combining form of σφυγμός pulse (f. σφύζειν to beat or throb), used in various scientific terms: Sphygmodynameter (see quot.). Sphygmogram, a diagram of pulse-beats as traced by the sphygmograph. Sphygmograph, an instrument that records the movements of the pulse by means of tracings; hence sphygmograph vb. Sphygmographic a., of or pertaining to, effected or produced by, the sphygmograph. Sphygmography, scientific description of the pulse or registration of pulse-beats. Sphygmomanometer, Sphygmometer, an instrument for measuring the force or rate of the pulse. Sphygmometric a., relating to measurement of the pulse. Sphygmophone, an instrument by which pulsations are rendered audible. Sphygmophonic a., pertaining to the sound of pulsations. Sphygmoscope, an instrument for examining the pulse.
1876. Catal. Sci. App. S. Kens., 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. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., V. 815. A pamphlet … giving descriptions and sphygmograms of such pulses in hysterical cases.
1860. Illustr. Lond. News, 14 April, 362/3. A new *sphygmograph or pulse register.
1875. Payne, Jones & Siev. Pathol. Anat., 259. That there is an increased arterial tension … is also demonstrated by the sphygmograph.
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., IV. 389. The educated finger, or I should say fingers, are as instructive as the sphygmograph.
1870. Gentl. Mag., Aug., 378. The doctors … measuring, *sphygmographing, and generally making a tool of experiment of him.
1875. H. C. Wood, Therap. (1879), 38. *Sphygmographic studies made of it … have been thought to indicate a condition of general arterial spasm.
1895. trans. Ferri’s Crim. Sociol., 167. The sphygmographic data on the circulation of the blood.
1859. Mayne, Expos. Lex., 1185. Sphygmographia,… a description of the pulse, its nature and causes: *sphygmography.
1864. Reader, March, 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.
1842. Brande, Dict. Sci., etc. 1138. *Sphigmometer.… An instrument for counting the arterial pulsations.
1872. O. W. Holmes, Poet Breakf.-t., iii. 76. There were … Sphygmometers and Pleximeters.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VII. 257. In states of over-fatigue … the arterial blood is, according to sphygmometer readings, run at high pressure. Ibid. (1898), V. 673. Here *sphygmometric observations are wanting, though much to be desired.
1879. B. W. Richardson, in Proc. R. Soc., May, 70. The *Sphygmophone.
1889. Handerson, trans. Baas’ Outl. Hist. Med., 1016. It has been combined with an electric chime of bells (sphygmophone of Upham).
1881. Med. Temp. Jrnl., XIII. 75. The pulse is sixty-eight, and the three *sphygmophonic indications are present.
1859. Mayne, Expos. Lex., 1185/2. Sphygmoscopium,… a *sphygmoscope.
1862. Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit., II. No. 2849, Sphygmoscopes; stethogoniometer; and hydrophone, used in chest diseases.
