sphygmophone

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek, from words meaning "pulse" and "sound".

Noun

sphygmophone (plural sphygmophones)

1. (physiology) An electrical instrument for determining by ear the rhythm of the pulse of a person at a distance.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sphygmophone”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)