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Definitions: Cardiograph |
CardiographNoun1. Medical instrument that records electric currents associated with contractions of the heart. 2. A medical instrument that measures the mechanical force of cardiac contractions and the amount of blood passing through the heart during a specified period by measuring the recoil of the body as blood is pumped from the ventricles. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Cardiograph \Car"di*o*graph\, noun. [from Greek expression kardi`a heart -graph.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Medicine | An instrument for recording the heart action in respect of rate and amplitude of beat. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: CardiographSynonyms: ballistocardiograph (n), electrocardiograph (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Instrument | Hammer; (impulse); edge tool; (cut); borer; vice, teeth; (hold); nail, rope; (join); peg; (hang); support; spoon; (vehicle); arms; oar; (navigation); cardiograph, recapper, snowplow, tenpenny, votograph. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Cardiograph |
| English words defined with "cardiograph": Cardiagraph, cardiographic, cardiography, Cardiosphygmograph ♦ electrocardiography. (references) |
| "Cardiograph" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cardiograph" is used about 7 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) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "cardiograph": electro cardiograph. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "cardiograph": echo-cardiograph, electro-cardiograph, phono-cardiograph. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
cardiograph | 8 |
acoustic cardiograph | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "cardiograph"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kardiograf. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 心动描记. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | kardiograf. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | cardiograaf. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | کاردیوگراف , قلب نگار, دستگاه ثبت ضربان قلب . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | cardiographe. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Kardiograph. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καρδιογράφοσ, καρδιογράφος. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | רשם לב. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | cardiografa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ardiographcay cardiógrafo. (various references) cardiograf. (various references) кардиограф. (various references) kardiograf. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cardiograph": cardiographic, cardiographies, cardiographs, cardiography. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "cardiograph": electrocardiograph, phonocardiograph. (additional references) | |
Words containing "cardiograph": angiocardiographic, angiocardiographies, angiocardiography, echocardiographer, echocardiographers, echocardiographic, echocardiographies, echocardiography, electrocardiographic, electrocardiographically, electrocardiographies, electrocardiographs, electrocardiography, phonocardiographic, phonocardiographies, phonocardiographs, phonocardiography. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "cardiograph" (pronounced 'Car"di*o*graph'): Accelerograph, Actinograph, Allograph, Anaglyptograph, Anagraph, Anapnograph, Anemograph, Anemometrograph, Antigraph, Apograph, Arcograph, Autochronograph, Barograph, Barometrograph, Barothermograph, Bibliograph, Brontograph, Cardiagraph, Cardiosphygmograph, Cerograph, Chirograph, Chorograph, Chromograph, Chromolithograph, Chromophotograph, Chronograph, Chronophotograph, Cinematograph, Cinemograph, Comptograph, Copygraph, Cryptograph, Curvograph, Cyclograph, Diagraph, Dictagraph, Dictograph, Digraph, Diplograph, Duograph, Dynamograph, Eidograph, Electro-chronograph, Ellipsograph, Elliptograph, Epigraph, Ergograph, Fluviograph, Galvanograph, Glyphograph. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-g-h-i-o-p-r-r" | |
-1 letter: radiograph. | |
-3 letters: agraphic, diagraph, parachor, podagric. | |
-4 letters: acaroid, airdrop, charpai, choragi, corrida, digraph, graphic, hagadic, haircap, orchard, parador, parodic, picador, pochard, podagra, ripcord. | |
-5 letters: aarrgh, acarid, adagio, agaric, cardia, carhop, chadar, chador, chadri, charro, coprah, gharri, hairdo, horrid, orchid, orgiac, orphic, pagoda, pardah, pariah, picara, picaro, raphia, rhodic. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-g-h-i-o-p-r-r" | |
+1 letter: cardiographs, cardiography, radiographic. | |
+2 letters: cardiographic. | |
+3 letters: cardiographies. | |
+4 letters: microradiograph, phonocardiogram. | |
+5 letters: autoradiographic, echocardiography, microradiographs, microradiography, phonocardiograms, phonocardiograph, radioautographic, radiographically. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 72 64 69 6F 67 72 61 70 68 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- .-. -.. .. --- --. .-. .- .--. .... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110010 01100100 01101001 01101111 01100111 01110010 01100001 01110000 01101000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a r d i o g r a p h |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0072 0064 0069 006F 0067 0072 0061 0070 0068 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3767847075817384678274 |
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