NOUN
- measuring instrument for measuring tension or pressure (especially for measuring intraocular pressure in testing for glaucoma)
How To Use tonometer In A Sentence
- Sometimes the tonometer is placed directly against the eyeball and pressure is applied in order for a reading to be taken.
- The tonometer's display indication during the IOP measurings is shown in Figure 11.
- Figure 11 - The tonometer's display indication during the IOP measurings.
- It is imperative to understand the effect of enteral feeding on measurements obtained via a gastric tonometer so that nutritional support can be optimized when this monitoring technique is used.
- The tonometer's position does not depend on what hand you are used to work - right or left.
- Using the slit lamp, your doctor moves the tonometer to touch your cornea.
- In the initial clinical application of gastric tonometers, a nasogastric tube was utilized that incorporated a silicon balloon at its tip.
- This can be done using a tonometer, a sensor that blows a small amount of air at the eyeball and then tests how much indentation the air has caused.
- Proper intraocular pressure is confirmed with the tonometer, which is removed and replaced with the suction ring/microkeratome track unit.
- A blue light from the head of the tonometer is then held against the eye to measure pressure in the eye.