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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphygmomanometer
I've also seen: blood pressure gauge, blood pressure cuff, blood pressure thingy. It is the tragedy of English, that this language boasts more words than many others, but don't try to use any of them or you'll be thought of as an elitist snob. Among native English speakers the learned and the illiterate share the same vocabulary, or as Novel Prize winner Pearl Buck said, "An illiterate Chinese peasant expresses himself better than an American college graduate."