Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An instrument used to record the mechanical movements of the heart.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In physiology, an apparatus for recording by a tracing the movements of the heart.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) An instrument which, when placed in contact with the chest, will register graphically the comparative duration and intensity of the heart's movements.
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- noun cardiology an
instrument which, placed in contact with thechest ,graphically registers thecomparative duration andintensity of theheart 'smovements
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun medical instrument that records electric currents associated with contractions of the heart
- noun a 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
Etymologies
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Examples
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The whole work is a like a heart cardiograph— a mechanical reflection of a life rhythm.
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Themba also received diagnostic orthopedic equipment, physiotherapy machines, an ultrasound scanner and a foetal cardiograph for its maternity unit.
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“Not fifteen years ago English doctors experimenting with a portable cardiograph at the Sheffield mortuary detected signs of life in a young woman certified dead from a drug overdose.”
The Serpent and the Rainbow Wade Davis 1985
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I saw Jonathan give them a swift sweep of the eyes and supposed he could identify the lot, and he said afterwards that they had all seemed to be standard machines for measuring body changes - cardiograph, encephalograph, gauges for temperature, respiration and skin moisture - and there had been at least two of each.
Twice shy Francis, Dick, 1920- 1981
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The last instrument reading had been taken; the spots of light on the cardiograph display had ceased their fateful dance.
Tales of Ten Worlds Clarke, Arthur C. 1950
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The cardiograph is constructed with an unerring accuracy by which a one-hundredth part of a second is indicated on a graph.
Autobiography of a Yogi Yogananda, Paramhansa, 1893-1952 1935
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The great botanist predicted that use of his cardiograph will lead to vivisection on plants instead of animals.
Autobiography of a Yogi Yogananda, Paramhansa, 1893-1952 1935
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The great botanist predicted that use of his cardiograph will lead to vivisection on plants instead of animals.
Autobiography of a Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda 1922
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The cardiograph is constructed with an unerring accuracy by which a one-hundredth part of a second is indicated on a graph.
Autobiography of a Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda 1922
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"There's some people in town that say the doc is a fair to middlin 'diagnostician and prescription-writer, but let me whisper this to you -- but for heaven's sake don't tell him I said so -- don't you ever go to him for anything more serious than a pendectomy of the left ear or a strabismus of the cardiograph."
Main Street 1920
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