Crossword clues for cardiograph
cardiograph
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.
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 1867, p.94]
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
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 a specified period by measuring the recoil of the body as blood is pumped from the ventricles [syn: ballistocardiograph]
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.