WordNet
n. a piece of electronic equipment for continual observation of the function of the heart [syn: heart monitor]
Usage examples of "cardiac monitor".
Soon the sonar-like beeps from the cardiac monitor competed with John Denver on the transistor.
The best thing that happened to me was when they took away the cardiac monitor.
On the screen of the cardiac monitor, a moving line of bright green light displayed the jagged and critical patterns of atrial and ventricular activity, which proceeded without a single disruptive blip, weak but steady.
He turned off the cardiac monitor and detached the leads from her.
A few minutes after the husband had been led out to the waiting room, Sheila's head snapped up so she could see the cardiac monitor.
And uncapped the vial and took his pill, while the cardiac monitor flashed red with alarms.
Illuminated only by the faint fluorescent wash from the corridor and the green glow of the cardiac monitor, room 518 was replete with shadows.
The cardiac monitor showed another coronary event, but Ravi Nara seemed to think obstructive hydrocephalus had finally occurred.
He was feeling chipper and reported that his cardiac monitor had been beeping as regularly as a metronome without the slightest suggestion of irregularity.
The alarm chirp on the cardiac monitor went off, and there was nothing to do but flip it off.