| abstract |
An inflatable cuff for pressing a body portion of a living subject by being wound and inflated around the body portion, in measuring a blood pressure of the subject, the cuff having (a) a first group of graduations provided on a major surface of the cuff, the major surface being adapted to be visible when the cuff is wound around the body portion of the subject, so that the first group of graduations are used for measuring a circumferential length of the body portion; and (b) a second group of graduations provided on the major surface of the cuff, the graduations of the second group corresponding to the graduations of the first group, respectively, so that the cuff wound around the body portion of the subject is fixed at one of the graduations of the second group which corresponds to one of the graduations of the first group which indicates the measured circumferential length of the body portion. |