cardiography

car·di·o·graph

C0108700 (kär′dē-ə-grăf′)n.1. An instrument used to record the mechanical movements of the heart.2. See electrocardiograph.

car′di·og′ra·phy (-ŏg′rə-fē) n.

cardiography

Medicine. the technique of graphically recording some physical or functional features of heart action.See also: Heart

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Noun

cardiography - diagnostic procedure consisting of recording the activity of the heart electronically with a cardiograph (and producing a cardiogram)electrocardiographydiagnostic procedure, diagnostic technique - a procedure followed in making a medical diagnosis

Translations

Cardiography

cardiography

[‚kärd·ē′äg·rə·fē] (medicine) Analysis of heart movements in the cardiac cycle by means of electronic instruments, especially by tracings.

Cardiography

the recording of the heart’s contractions; in the broader sense, all methods of registering the heart’s contractile functions.

The first cardiogram (more precisely, a mechanocardiogram) was taken by the French physiologist E. Marey in 1863 by recording the cardiac impulse at the fifth intercostal space. An impulse results when the heart contracts from an ellipsoid, becoming rounder and thicker, its apex rising and pressing against the chest wall. The irregularity of individual waves on the cardiogram and the difficulty of interpretation led to the replacement of the method by more refined ones: ultrasound impulse cardiography, ballistocardiography, dynamocardiography, kinetocardi-ography, seismokymography, roentgenokymography, electro-kymography, and phonocardiography.

I. N. D’IAKONOVA

cardiography

[kahr″de-og´rah-fe] the graphic recording of a physical or functional aspect of the heart, such as in echocardiography, electrocardiography, kinetocardiography, phonocardiography, and vibrocardiography.apex cardiography graphic recording of low-frequency pulsations at the anterior chest wall over the apex of the heart.ultrasonic cardiography echocardiography.vector cardiography vectorcardiography.

car·di·og·ra·phy

(kar-dē-og'ră-fē), Use of the cardiograph.
See also: electrocardiography.

car·di·og·ra·phy

(kahr'dē-og'ră-fē) The use of the cardiograph.

cardiography

A study of the heart action and function by means of electronic instruments, such as the electrocardiogram, or by ultrasound scanning (ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY).

cardiography

Related to cardiography: echocardiography, electrocardiography, angiography

noun

Synonyms for cardiography

noun diagnostic procedure consisting of recording the activity of the heart electronically with a cardiograph (and producing a cardiogram)

Synonyms

electrocardiography

Related Words

diagnostic procedure
diagnostic technique