- phonocardiography
- noun Date: 1916 the process of producing a phonocardiogram • phonocardiograph noun • phonocardiographic adjective
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phonocardiography
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phonocardiography — See phonocardiographic. * * * ▪ medicine diagnostic technique that creates a graphic record, or phonocardiogram, of the sounds and murmurs produced by the contracting heart, including its valves and associated great vessels. The… … Universalium
phonocardiography — 1. Recording of the heart sounds with a phonocardiograph. 2. The science of interpreting phonocardiograms. [phono + G. kardia, heart, + grapho, to record] * * * pho·no·car·di·og·ra·phy .kärd ē äg rə fē n, pl phies the recording of heart sounds by … Medical dictionary
phonocardiography — n. recording of heart sounds using a phonocardiograph (Medicine) … English contemporary dictionary
phonocardiography — pho·no·cardiography … English syllables
phonocardiography — “+ noun Etymology: phon + cardiography : the graphic recording of the sounds of the heart by phonocardiogram … Useful english dictionary
intracardiac phonocardiography — the graphic registration of sounds produced by action of the heart by means of a phonocatheter passed into one of the heart chambers … Medical dictionary
phonocardiograph — phonocardiography /foh neuh kahr dee og reuh fee/, n. /foh neuh kahr dee euh graf , grahf /, n. Med. an instrument for graphically recording the sound of the heartbeat. [1925 30; PHONO + CARDIOGRAPH] * * * … Universalium
phonocardiogram — A record of the heart sounds made by means of a phonocardiograph. * * * pho·no·car·dio·gram .fō nə kärd ē ə .gram n a graphic record of heart sounds made by means of a phonocardiograph * * * n. see electrocardiophonography • phonocardiography … Medical dictionary
phonocardiograph — noun see phonocardiography … New Collegiate Dictionary
phonocardiographic — adjective see phonocardiography … New Collegiate Dictionary
