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devilbunnyyesterday at 7:00 PM1 replyview on HN

And if you use a mercury sphygmomanometer, you can actually see those pulses appear and then disappear. (It's harder to see them with a gauge-based one.)


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M95Dyesterday at 7:46 PM

The pulses you see are no substitute for a stethoscope. You see them later and they dissappear sooner than what you hear with a stethoscope.

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