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nounmedical instrument that records electric currents associated with contractions of the heart
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nouna medical instrument that measures the mechanical force of cardiac contractions and the amount of blood passing through the heart during a specified period by measuring the recoil of the body as blood is pumped from the ventricles
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Definition that contains cardiograph
- ekg a graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph
- ecg a graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph
- cardiogram a graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph
- electrocardiogram a graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph
- echocardiogram a graphical image of the heart produced by an echocardiograph
- electrocardiographic of or relating to an electrocardiograph
- cardiographic of or relating to a cardiograph
- electrocardiography diagnostic procedure consisting of recording the activity of the heart electronically with a cardiograph (and producing a cardiogram)
- ballistocardiogram a graphical recording made by a ballistocardiograph
- willem einthoven Dutch physiologist who devised the first electrocardiograph (1860-1927)