myocardiograph

English

Etymology

From myo- +‎ cardio- +‎ -graph.

Noun

myocardiograph (plural myocardiographs)

  1. (medicine) An instrument that records the movement of heart muscle.
    • 1920, D.J. Edwards, “Segmental activity in the heart of the Limulus”, in American Journal of Physiology, volume 52, number 2, page 276:
      Small myocardiographs recording by means of Frank capsules were used in the experiments here described, and the arrangement of the apparatus was essentially the same as described by Wiggers (2) and used for analyzing the contraction process in mammalian auricle.
    • 1965, Natalia V. Kaverina, Pharmacology of the Coronary Circulation, page 110:
      From above down: amplitude of cardiac contractions (recorded my means of a myocardiograph with pneumatic transmission), blood pressure, […]
    • 2013, D.R. Laurence, A.L. Bacharach, Evaluation of Drug Activities: Pharmacometrics, page 388:
      Heart contractions are usually recorded with a Cushny myocardiograph sewn to the wall of the left ventricle and attached to a simple quasi-isometric lever system.

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