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echocardiographic

echocardiographic

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Relating to images of the heart made with sound waves
  • adjective
  • /ˌɛkoʊˌkɑːrdiəˈɡræfɪk/
  • Specialized
: ecocardiográfico
  • 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

  • Underlying cardiac conditions were assessed by cardiologists on the basis of patients' medical records, history, physical examination, and echocardiographic findings.

    Academic text (2014)
  • Pure mitral stenosis was diagnosed when no clinical or echocardiographic evidence for regurgitation was found.

    Academic text (2007)
  • Many different echocardiographic abnormalities have been described in patients with NSM after SAH.

    Academic text (2016)
  • The TTE echocardiographic subcostal window can be used to view the IVC.

    Academic text (2016)
  • Mitral valve dysfunction is very rare in traumatic chest injuries; once it occurs, important clinical and echocardiographic signs are visualized.

    Academic text (2016)
  • Echocardiographic examination revealed apical and lateral wall akinesis, with severe depression of global systolic function.

    Academic text (2007)
  • Conversely, evaluating echocardiographic wall motion abnormalities necessitates distinguishing between global and regional systolic dysfunction.

    Academic text (2016)
  • Literature involving NSM after SAH has focused on the following diagnostic criteria: ECG features, serum enzyme abnormalities, and echocardiographic abnormalities.

    Academic text (2016)
  • Ancona et al. noted a preponderance of hypokinesis in the midventricular and basal segments when evaluating echocardiographic abnormalities in patients with NSM after SAH.

    Academic text (2016)
  • 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.