Sphygmomanometer.
just a fancy-pants medical word for a blood pressure meter. it was invented by Samuel Sigfried Karl Ritter von Basch. Scipione Riva-Rocci created a more easily usable version in 1896.
it's further explained on this Wikipedia link.
this word is also mentioned on an episode of M*A*S*H.
Hawkeye: "I always wake up when a lady pumps her sphygmomanometer."
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