cardiograph
Americannoun
noun
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an instrument for recording the mechanical force and form of heart movements
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short for electrocardiograph
Other Word Forms
- cardiographer noun
- cardiographic adjective
- cardiographically adverb
- cardiography noun
Etymology
Origin of cardiograph
Example Sentences
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Amidships, a cardiograph expert crouched over his instrument and worked desperately with the controls.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet the physician may not be able to detect them with a cardiograph or x-rays.
From Time Magazine Archive
Without another word, she shoves the telephone mouthpiece into the receptacle of a Bell Dataphone attached to the cardiograph.
From Time Magazine Archive
He tells of a black photographer who collected King's blood in a pill bottle and a white doctor, with no special admiration for King, who nevertheless saved the cardiograph tape of his last heartbeats.
From Time Magazine Archive
"And I told him I would be back after having the cardiograph."
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
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