Definition of Cardiogram

1. Noun. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph.


Definition of Cardiogram

1. n. The curve or tracing made by a cardiograph.

Definition of Cardiogram

1. Noun. (cardiology) The visual output an electrocardiograph produces ¹

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Definition of Cardiogram

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Medical Definition of Cardiogram

1. 1. The graphic tracing made by the stylet of a cardiograph. 2. Generally used for any recording derived from the heart, with such prefixes as apex-, echo-, electro-, phono-, or vector-being understood. Origin: cardio-+ G. Gramma, a diagram Oesophageal cardiogram, tracing of left atrial contractions made by recording displacements of the column of air in a sensor-equipped oesophageal tube. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cardiogram

cardiodiaphragmatic angle
cardiodiosis
cardiodynamics
cardiodynia
cardioectomy
cardioesophageal
cardioesophageal junction
cardioesophageal relaxation
cardiofacial
cardiogenesis
cardiogenic
cardiogenic plate
cardiogenic shock
cardiogenol
cardiogram (current term)
cardiogramme
cardiogrammes
cardiograms
cardiograph
cardiographic
cardiographies
cardiographs
cardiography
cardiohemothrombus
cardiohepatic
cardiohepatic angle
cardiohepatic triangle
cardiohepatomegaly
cardioid

Literary usage of Cardiogram

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Text-book of physiology by Isaac Ott (1913)
"DIVISION OF HEART'S REVOLUTION ACCORDINO TO THE ELECTRO-cardiogram. Phase of Electro-cardiogram. h. Activity of His bundle ...... }p™sy*tole. ..."

2. A Manual of physiology: With Practical Exercises by George Neil Stewart (1905)
"cardiogram.—Smoke a drum, and arrange a recording tambour and a ... 7 i ), and measure out on the cardiogram the time- value of the various events in the ..."

3. Laboratory manual of physiology by Frederick Carl Busch (1905)
"APEX BEAT, cardiogram, AND HEART SOUNDS. 1. Let a student strip to the waist. Locate the apex impulse. What is its relation to the sternum ? to the nipple ..."

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