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Definition: ECG |
ECGNoun1. A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Measurement of electrical activity during heartbeats. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ECG | English | Electro chemical grinding | N/A |
ECG | French | électrocardiogramme | Medicine |
ECG | Portuguese | Electrocardiograma | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: ECGSynonyms: cardiogram (n), electrocardiogram (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: ECG |
| Specialty definitions using "ECG": AV junctional escape rhythm, AV junctional rhythm ♦ ecg technician ♦ pacemaker artifact ♦ stimulus artifact. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 77.78% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 14.81% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (common) | 7.41% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 27 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Sweden | Extended Capital Group ECG AB |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency 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. | |
| 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. | ||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 43 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -.-. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01000011 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E C G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0043 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)393741 |
| 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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