An instrument that measures blood pressure and the force of blood circulation; a device for recording hemadynamic measurements.
From hemo- (blood) plus dynamo- (force) plus -meter (measure). It's a technical term from 19th-century medicine combining Greek roots to describe measuring blood force.
The hemadynamometer represents the moment medicine became quantitative—instead of just listening to a heartbeat, doctors could actually measure blood pressure with numbers!
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