| 单词 | gaertner's tonometer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasGaertner's tonometer 1. In the genitive and attributive, esp. in Gaertner's tonometer. Designating an apparatus used to measure (or estimate) blood pressure, consisting of an inflatable ring placed around a finger, with a manometer measuring the pressure required to stop arterial pulsation in the finger. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > specific measuring or recording > [noun] > specific measuring or recording instruments > for blood-pressure haemodynamometer1835 haemometer1872 tonometer1876 sphygmomanometer1891 Gaertner's tonometer1901 1901 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 4 May 1094/1 He measured the pressure by means of Gärtner's tonometer. 1903 Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 26 Feb. 223/1 It is about three years since I first began to experiment with Gaertner's blood-pressure machine. 1914 J. H. Austin in G. W. Norris Blood-pressure i. 46 The effect of mental effort has been shown by Putermann, who studied with the Gärtner tonometer the blood-pressure of 43 boys immediately before and after a school examination. 1934 J. F. H. Dally High Blood Pressure (ed. 3) xv. 245 Gärtner's tonometer (1899) afforded another index of systolic pressure by the point at which colour returned to the skin of the blanched finger after removal of compression. 1993 Technol. & Culture 34 795 One of the most popular rivals of Riva-Rocci's sphygmomanometer was Gaertner's tonometer. < as lemmas |
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