echocardiographic
- adjective
- /ˌɛkoʊˌkɑːrdiəˈɡræfɪk/
- Specialized
- His surviving sister (aged 12 years) presented with electrocardiographic and echocardiographic findings typical of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (17 mm asymmetric septal hypertrophy).
- echocardiographic abnormalities
- echocardiographic findings
- echocardiographic signs
Examples
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Underlying cardiac conditions were assessed by cardiologists on the basis of patients' medical records, history, physical examination, and echocardiographic findings.
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Pure mitral stenosis was diagnosed when no clinical or echocardiographic evidence for regurgitation was found.
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Many different echocardiographic abnormalities have been described in patients with NSM after SAH.
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The TTE echocardiographic subcostal window can be used to view the IVC.
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Mitral valve dysfunction is very rare in traumatic chest injuries; once it occurs, important clinical and echocardiographic signs are visualized.
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Echocardiographic examination revealed apical and lateral wall akinesis, with severe depression of global systolic function.
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Conversely, evaluating echocardiographic wall motion abnormalities necessitates distinguishing between global and regional systolic dysfunction.
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Literature involving NSM after SAH has focused on the following diagnostic criteria: ECG features, serum enzyme abnormalities, and echocardiographic abnormalities.
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Ancona et al. noted a preponderance of hypokinesis in the midventricular and basal segments when evaluating echocardiographic abnormalities in patients with NSM after SAH.
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The doctor used an echocardiographic test to check the patient's heart function.
Surface Forms
Morphology
echocardiographic = echocardiography (opaque) = echo + cardio + graph + ic
The adjective is a regular derivative of the technical noun 'echocardiography', but the medical combining forms are not transparent to an average B1 learner.
Etymology
Echocardiographic breaks into three parts: echo- meaning 'sound', cardio- meaning 'heart', and -graphic meaning 'picture'. So an echocardiographic test is like making a 'picture of the heart with sound', which explains why doctors use sound waves to image the heart.