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.

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

  • noun cardiology an instrument which, placed in contact with the chest, graphically registers the comparative duration and intensity of the heart's movements

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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cardio- + -graph

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Examples

  • The whole work is a like a heart cardiograph— a mechanical reflection of a life rhythm.

    Cost of Dignity-Priceless, LaToya Ruby Frazier « 2009

  • Themba also received diagnostic orthopedic equipment, physiotherapy machines, an ultrasound scanner and a foetal cardiograph for its maternity unit.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • “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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • "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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