Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An instrument for recording variations in pressure, as of the blood, or in tension, as of a muscle, by means of a pen or stylus that marks a rotating drum.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An instrument by means of which variations of fluid pressure, as of the blood in some one of the vessels of a living animal, can be measured and graphically recorded.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physiol.) An instrument for measuring, and recording graphically, the pressure of the blood in any of the blood vessels of a living animal; -- called also
kymographion .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
device that gives a graphical representation of avariation in aphenomenon such asblood pressure over time, using apen on a rotatingdrum .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun scientific instrument consisting of a rotating drum holding paper on which a stylus traces a continuous record (as of breathing or blood pressure)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Greek kūma, something swollen; see cyma + –graph.]
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December 18, 2018