He`ma*dy"na*mom"e*ter (?), n. [Hema- + dynamometr.] Physiol.

An instrument by which the pressure of the blood in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will raise a column of mercury; -- called also a haemomanometer.

 

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