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ECG

Definition: ECG

ECG

Noun

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: ECG

DomainDefinitions

Health

Measurement of electrical activity during heartbeats. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: ECG

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.

EntrySourceExpressionField

ECG

EnglishElectro chemical grindingN/A

ECG

FrenchélectrocardiogrammeMedicine

ECG

PortugueseElectrocardiogramaMedicine

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: ECG

Synonyms: cardiogram (n), electrocardiogram (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: ECG

Specialty definitions using "ECG": AV junctional escape rhythm, AV junctional rhythmecg technicianpacemaker artifactstimulus artifact. (references)

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Commercial Usage: ECG

DomainTitle

References

  • Extended Capital Group ECG AB: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • A Practical Guide to Ecg Interpretation (reference)

  • ECG for the Small Animal Practitioner (reference)

  • ECG Interpretation Made Incredibly Easy! (reference)

  • Flip and See ECG (2nd Edition) (reference)

  • Pocketguide to ECG Diagnosis (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: ECG

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Exercise ECG (stress test). (references)

The ECG records electrical impulses of the heart. (references)

For many patients with angina, the ECG at rest is normal. (references)

Business

All of these are being equipped with at least the basic diagnostic and monitoring equipment such as ECG, x-ray units and respiratory apparatus. (references)

There is also an increasing need for x-rays, magnetic resonance, nuclear medicine, ultrasound, hemodialysis equipment, ECG, EEG and disposable material. (references)

American-manufactured equipment for diagnostics such as ultrasound, x-rays, ECG, EEG, nuclear medicine and magnetic resonance hold a significant portion in the Venezuelan medical sector because of their high technology, quality, durability and reliability. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: ECG

"ECG" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 77.78% of the time. "ECG" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)77.78%2176,261
Lexical Verb (base form)14.81%4175,879
Noun (common)7.41%2245,945
                    Total100.00%27N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: ECG

CountryName
Sweden

Extended Capital Group ECG AB

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ECG

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

ecg

741

ecg semiconductor

51

ecg interpretation

38

ecg electronics

24

ecg long distance

23

ecg manual

23

philips ecg

22

12 lead ecg

21

ecg cross reference

17

ecg machine

17
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: ECG

Language Translations for "ECG"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

elektroencefalografisk spektralanalyse (ECG spectrum analysis, electroencephalographic spectrum analysis), hypercalcaemi-ekg (hypercalcaemia ECG), arbejds-elektrokardiografi (exercise tolerance test, stress ECG), ambulant EKG-undersoegelse (ambulatory ECG monitoring). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

elektro-encefalografische spectraalanalyse (ECG spectrum analysis, electroencephalographic spectrum analysis), inspanningselektrocardiografie op ergometerfiets (exercise tolerance test, stress ECG), ambulante elektrocardiogramregistratie (ambulatory ECG monitoring). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

EEG:n spektrianalyysi (ECG spectrum analysis, electroencephalographic spectrum analysis), rasituselektrokardiografia 11] (exercise tolerance test, stress ECG), rasitus-EKG (exercise tolerance test, stress ECG). (various references)

   

French

  

E.C.G.d'hypercalcémie (hypercalcaemia ECG), contrôle électrocardiogramme ambulatoire (ambulatory ECG monitoring), analyse spectrale électroencéphalographique (ECG spectrum analysis), électrocardiographie d'effort (stress ECG). (various references)

   

German

  

ekg. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ΗΚ"φικές αλλοιώσεις της υπερασβεστιαιμίας (hypercalcaemia ECG), έλεγχος με τη βοήθεια περιπατητικών ηλεκτροκαρδιογραφημάτων (ambulatory ECG monitoring), φασματική ηλεκτροεγκεφαλογραφική ανάλυση (ECG spectrum analysis, electroencephalographic spectrum analysis), ηλεκτροκαρδιογραφία προσπάθειας (exercise tolerance test, stress ECG). (various references)

   

Italian

  

elettrocardiogramma da sforzo (exercise tolerance test, stress ECG), ECG dell'ipercalciemia (hypercalcaemia ECG), test ergometrico (exercise tolerance test, stress ECG), test da sforzo (exercise tolerance test, stress ECG), test al cicloergometro (exercise tolerance test, stress ECG), controllo elettrocardiografico ambulatoriale (ambulatory ECG monitoring). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ecgay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

E.C.G.de hipercalcemia (hypercalcaemia ECG), controlo electrocardiográfico ambulatório (ambulatory ECG monitoring). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

estudio espectral electroencefalográfico (ECG spectrum analysis, electroencephalographic spectrum analysis), electrocardiograma de esfuerzo (exercise tolerance test, stress ECG), ECG de hipercalcemia (hypercalcaemia ECG), ECG de esfuerzo (exercise tolerance test, stress ECG), control ECG ambulatorio (ambulatory ECG monitoring). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: ECG

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "c-e-g"
 

+1 letter: cage, geck.

 

+2 letters: cadge, caged, cager, cages, cagey, conge, gecko, gecks, genic, glace, grace.

 

+3 letters: agency, beclog, cadged, cadger, cadges, cagers, cagier, cangue, ceding, cering, change, charge, chegoe, chigoe, clergy, codger, cogent, cogged, coigne, congee, conger, conges, cowage, cringe, cubage, cudgel, cueing, cygnet, eching, eggcup, encage, gauche, gecked, geckos, geodic, gestic, glaces, glance, graced, graces, grocer, gweduc, incage, legacy, socage, uncage.

 

+4 letters: acreage, acrogen, agapeic, anergic, angelic, anglice, apogeic, becking, beclogs, boscage, cabbage, cadgers, cageful, cagiest, cangues, cargoes, carnage, cartage, ceasing, ceiling, celling, censing, cessing, changed, changer, changes, charged, charger, charges, chegoes, chewing, chigger, chigoes, choregi, chugged, chugger, cigaret, clagged, clanged, clanger, cleping, clewing, clinged, clinger, clogged, clogger, clueing, coagent, codgers, cogency, cognate, cognise, cognize, coigned, coignes, coinage, collage, college, cologne, congaed, congeal, congeed, congees, congers, congest, congoes, cordage, coreign, corkage, corsage, cortege, cottage, coughed, cougher, courage, cowages, cowhage, cragged, creping, crewing, cringed, cringer, cringes, cringle, cryogen, cubages, cudgels, cuttage, cygnets, decagon, decalog, decking, deicing, deucing, dockage, dogface, echoing, eclogue, ecology, educing, eggcups, elegiac, encaged, encages, epigeic, ergodic, ergotic, escuage, etching, eugenic, fencing, galenic, gametic, ganache, gaucher, gecking, geckoes, generic, genetic, genomic, geoduck, georgic, glaceed, glacier, glanced, glancer, glances, glucose, glycine, gouache, gracile, grackle, grecize, grimace, grocers, grocery, gulches, gweduck, gweducs, gynecia, gynecic, iceberg, incaged, incages, jackleg, kecking, leching, lockage, necking, neglect, package, peacing, peching, pecking, pelagic, piecing, recking, regency, scalage, scourge, scrooge, scrouge, scutage, socager, socages, soccage, uncaged, uncages, urgency.

 

+5 letters: acceding, acreages, acrogens, agencies, agenetic, aglycone, agrestic, algicide, allergic, amercing, angelica, argentic, beaching, becoming, becudgel, belching, benching, biogenic, birdcage, blackleg, blockage, boscages, brockage, cabbaged, cabbages, cabotage, cagefuls, cageling, caginess, cameoing, campagne, canoeing, capering, carageen, carnages, carriage, cartages, category, catering, ceilings, centring, cetology, changers, chantage, chargers, cheating, checking, cheeking, cheeping, cheering, cheesing, cheffing, chemurgy, chevying, chigetai, chiggers, choregus, chuggers, cigarets, clangers, cleaning, clearing, cleating, cleavage, cleaving, cleeking, clefting, clergies, clerking, clingers, clingier, cloggers, cloggier, coagency, coagents, coccyges, codesign, coercing, cogently, cogitate, cognates, cognised, cognises, cognized, cognizer, cognizes, cognomen, cogwheel, cohering, coinages, collaged, collagen, collages, colleger, colleges, collegia, collogue, cologned, colognes, comanage, comingle, congeals, congener, congests, conglobe, congress, converge, cooeeing, cooeying, cordages, coreigns, corkages, corsages, corteges, cosigned, cosigner, cottager, cottages, cottagey, coughers, courages, coverage, covering, coveting, cowering, cowhages, cozenage, cozening, craggier, cragsmen, crannoge, creaking, creaming, creasing, creating, creeling, creepage, creeping, cresting, cribbage, cringers, cringles, cryogens, cryogeny, cudgeled, cudgeler, cultigen, cupeling, cuttages, cyanogen, cymogene, cytogeny, decagons, decagram, decalogs, decaying, deciding, decigram, deckings, decoding, decoying, decrying, deducing, defacing, delegacy, disgrace, dockages, dogfaces, dysgenic, echogram, eclogite, eclogues, ecologic, effacing, egoistic, ejecting, electing, elegance, elegancy, elegiacs, emceeing, enacting, encaging, encasing, encoding, encoring, enfacing, enlacing, ensigncy, enticing, epigenic, epigonic, erecting, ergastic, erogenic, eructing, escaping, escargot, escoting, escuages, etchings, euchring, eugenics, evicting, evincing, exacting, exchange, exciding, excising, exciting, excusing, exegetic, exigence, exigency, exoergic, exogamic, faceting, fencings, fetching, flecking, fleecing, gamecock, ganaches, gauchely, gauchest, gavelock, gearcase, gemsbuck, generics, genetics, genocide, gentrice, geodesic, geodetic, geoducks, geologic, geomancy, geoponic, georgics, germanic, gerontic, gestical, giveback, glaceing, glaciate, glaciers, glacises, glancers, glitches, glucoses, glunched, glunches, glyceric, glycerin, glycerol, glyceryl, glycines, glycogen, gneissic, gonocyte, gouaches, graceful, graciles, grackles, graecize, gramercy, grecized, grecizes, grimaced, grimacer, grimaces, grinches, groschen, grouched, grouches, grutched, grutches, guidance, gweducks, gynaecea, gynaecia, gynecium, gynecoid, gynoecia, heckling, hygienic, icebergs, isogenic, jacklegs, keckling, lacewing, leaching, leeching, legacies, letching, lockages, logicise, logicize, magicked, magnesic, magnetic, megabuck, megacity, menacing, mergence, mucilage, myogenic, neckings, neglects, neologic, ochering, octangle, oecology, oncogene, orogenic, oxygenic, packaged, packager, packages, peaching, perching, piecings, piercing, pungency, pyogenic, reaching, reacting, reaginic, recaning, receding, rechange, recharge, reciting, recoding, recusing, reducing, refacing, regicide, regnancy, relacing, rescuing, retching, ringneck, scalages, scavenge, scending, scenting, scheming, scourged, scourger, scourges, scragged, screwing, scrooges, scrouged, scrouges, scrounge, scutages, seceding, securing, seducing, socagers, soccages, speccing, specking, synergic, tagmemic, tangence, tangency, teaching, teiglach, theurgic, trackage, truckage, turgency, ulcering, uncharge, ungraced, vergence, vicarage, vicinage, welching, wenching, wreckage, wrecking, zoogenic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: ECG


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 43 47

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01000011 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#67 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0043 0047

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

393741

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Names: Company Usage
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Abbreviations
11. Acronyms
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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