Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The curve traced by a cardiograph, used in the diagnosis of heart disorders.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In physiology, a tracing taken with the cardiograph from the beating of the heart.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Physiol.) Any instrumental record made of heart activity, especially the curve or tracing made by a cardiograph. Sometimes used synonymously with electrocardiogram.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun cardiology The visual output an electrocardiograph produces

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph

Etymologies

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cardio- + -gram

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Examples

  • «stroke of luck» was indispensable, even if one is a well-trained experimentator, to obtain a «mechanical» cardiogram from a person, which entirely corresponds with one taken some hours before.

    Physiology or Medicine 1924 - Presentation Speech 1965

  • At St Clair, the former president underwent an echo cardiogram, which is an ultrasound of the chambers of the heart, and the results concluded that all was normal.

    newsday.co.tt 2010

  • He gave me a written report of his findings as well as a video of the cardiogram and he couldn't have been nicer.

    Access to medical specialists at Lakeside 2009

  • I thought I was having a heart problem and Dr. Garcia at the Ajijic Clinic called a cardiologist in Guadalajara who met me at this office ON A SATURDAY to do an echo-cardiogram.

    Access to medical specialists at Lakeside 2009

  • I thought I was having a heart problem and Dr. Garcia at the Ajijic Clinic called a cardiologist in Guadalajara who met me at this office ON A SATURDAY to do an echo-cardiogram.

    Access to medical specialists at Lakeside 2009

  • I thought I was having a heart problem and Dr. Garcia at the Ajijic Clinic called a cardiologist in Guadalajara who met me at this office ON A SATURDAY to do an echo-cardiogram.

    Access to medical specialists at Lakeside 2009

  • He gave me a written report of his findings as well as a video of the cardiogram and he couldn't have been nicer.

    Access to medical specialists at Lakeside 2009

  • He gave me a written report of his findings as well as a video of the cardiogram and he couldn't have been nicer.

    Access to medical specialists at Lakeside 2009

  • I thought I was having a heart problem and Dr. Garcia at the Ajijic Clinic called a cardiologist in Guadalajara who met me at this office ON A SATURDAY to do an echo-cardiogram.

    Access to medical specialists at Lakeside 2009

  • He gave me a written report of his findings as well as a video of the cardiogram and he couldn't have been nicer.

    Access to medical specialists at Lakeside 2009

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  • What my long-deceased uncle from eastern Kentucky called a "heart-o-gram".

    November 29, 2010