Patient A and Patient B are feeling much better. The nurse v…
Patient A and Patient B are feeling much better. The nurse visits them later in the day to check their blood pressure. Blood pressure is measured in millimeters of mercury. (Early instruments for checking blood pressure used a visual method where the height of mercury in a narrow column corresponded to the patient’s blood pressure.) Typically, mercury is measured as one drop per milliliter. TRUE or FALSE: One drop of mercury is smaller than one common eyedrop.