electrocardiograph
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5.3
- noun
- /ɪˌlɛktrəˈkɑrdiəˌɡræf/
- Specialized
:
electrocardiógrafo
- There was continuous recording of the 12-lead electrocardiogram using an electrocardiograph (Marquette Electronics Inc., Milwaukee, WI, USA).
Examples
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As measured on the skin, the cardiac cycle creates the peaks and valleys seen on a typical electrocardiograph.
Academic text (2011) -
Exhibits feature the electric ray and such life-saving and life-preserving machines as a pacemaker, a defibrillator, and an electrocardiograph.
Academic text (1995) -
The electrocardiograph showed right heart strain.
Academic text (1992) -
His heart stuttered, sending a series of spikes across the screen of the electrocardiograph.
Fiction book (1992) -
Electrocardiograph.
Fiction book (1996) -
The men bent over my father awkwardly, adjusting the electrocardiograph and receiving radioed instructions from the hospital emergency room.
Fiction book (1992) -
Our initial implementation uses these sensors to emulate the electrodes used in an electrocardiograph, commonly known as an EKG (or ECG) system.
Academic text (2011) -
With speed and economy of movement, they scissored the remaining clothes off the dead man, leaving him naked on his back, and attached to him the leads of an electrocardiograph, an electroencephalograph, and a skin-patch digital-readout thermometer.
Fiction book (1992) -
The doctor used the electrocardiograph to monitor the patient's heart activity during the procedure.
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After connecting the electrodes, the electrocardiograph displayed the electrical signals from the heart on the screen.
Synonyms
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3.6
A machine that records and shows a person's heartbeat
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3.7
A machine that shows a person's heart rate and rhythm continuously
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5.3
A machine that records the heart's electrical activity
How Portable
Surface Forms
Morphology
electrocardiograph = cardiograph (transparent) = electro + cardio + graph
Adding electro- to cardiograph creates a standard scientific term whose meaning is directly compositional.
Etymology
Electrocardiograph breaks into three clear parts: electro meaning 'electric', cardio meaning 'heart', and graph meaning 'to write' or 'to record'. So, an electrocardiograph is a machine that 'records' the heart's electrical signals.