Cardiograph
electrocardiograph.
Historical Examples
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 Paramhansa Yogananda
The great botanist predicted that use of his cardiograph will lead to vivisection on plants instead of animals.
Autobiography of a YOGI Paramhansa Yogananda
noun
an instrument for recording the mechanical force and form of heart movements
short for electrocardiograph
n.
1867, from cardio- + -graph “something written.”
Although the work does not treat of the recent means of diagnosis–the thermometer, laryngoscope, cardiograph, etc.,–still it is complete as far as it goes. [book review in “Medical Investigator,” May 1867, p.94]
cardiograph car·di·o·graph (kär’dē-ə-grāf’)
n.
An instrument used to record the mechanical movements of the heart.
See electrocardiograph.
car’di·og’ra·phy (-ŏg’rə-fē) n.
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