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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
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cardiograph
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Word definitions for cardiograph in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. medical instrument that records electric currents associated with contractions of the heart [syn: electrocardiograph ] a medical instrument that measures the mechanical force of cardiac contractions and the amount of blood passing through the heart during ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1867, from cardio- + -graph "something written."\n\nAlthough the work does not treat of the recent means of diagnosis --the thermometer, laryngoscope, cardiograph, etc., --still it is complete as far as it goes. [book review in "Medical Investigator," May ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
cardiograph \car"di*o*graph\, n. [Gr. kardi`a heart + -graph.] (Med.) An instrument which, when placed in contact with the chest, will register graphically the comparative duration and intensity of the heart's movements.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context cardiology English) an instrument which, placed in contact with the chest, graphically registers the comparative duration and intensity of the heart's movements
Usage examples of cardiograph.
The telegraph wires ran a race with the train, rising and falling from pole to pole, in an even rhythm, like the cardiograph record of a steady heartbeat written across the sky.
The cardiograph pulsed slow but regular, though there were traces in the reading that spelled the beginnings of arteriosclerosis.
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.
He sat for a while sipping his coffee and frowning slightly like a surgeon watching a cardiograph during a difficult operation.