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'''Osler's Sign''' is a [[medical sign]] named in honor of the famous Professor [[William Osler]], Professor of Medicine at the [[Johns Hopkins University]] is an artificially and falsely elevated [[blood pressure]] reading obtained through [[sphygmomanometry]] due to [[atherosclerosis|arteriosclerotic]], [[calcification|calcified]] [[blood vessel]]s which do not [[physiology|physiologically]] compress with pressure - therefore the blood pressure reading is higher than it truly ought to be. | '''Osler's Sign''' is a [[medical sign]] named in honor of the famous Professor [[William Osler]], Professor of Medicine at the [[Johns Hopkins University]] is an artificially and falsely elevated [[blood pressure]] reading obtained through [[sphygmomanometry]] due to [[atherosclerosis|arteriosclerotic]], [[calcification|calcified]] [[blood vessel]]s which do not [[physiology|physiologically]] compress with pressure - therefore the blood pressure reading is higher than it truly ought to be. | ||
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Osler's Sign is a medical sign named in honor of the famous Professor William Osler, Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University is an artificially and falsely elevated blood pressure reading obtained through sphygmomanometry due to arteriosclerotic, calcified blood vessels which do not physiologically compress with pressure - therefore the blood pressure reading is higher than it truly ought to be.
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