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echocardiogram
[ ek-oh-kahr-dee-uh-gram ]
noun
- a graphic record produced by an echocardiograph.
echocardiogram
/ ˌɛəʊˈɑːɪəʊˌɡæ /
noun
- a visual display or record produced using echocardiography
echocardiogram
/ ĕ′ō-ä′ŧ-ə-ă′ /
- An ultrasound image of the heart that demonstrates the size, motion, and composition of cardiac structures and is used to diagnose various abnormalities of the heart, including valvular dysfunction, abnormal chamber size, congenital heart disease, and cardiomyopathy.
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Origin of echocardiogram1
Example Sentences
The duties included blood monitoring, inserting cannulas and doing echocardiograms, which are scans used to look at the heart and nearby blood vessels.
Patients may or may not have symptoms when their heart is not pumping effectively, and doctors may not order an echocardiogram or other diagnostic test to check ejection fraction unless there are symptoms.
"Most importantly, our system can be used to objectively assess function of the organ prior to transplant including the ability to perform echocardiograms, compared to assessment of function in the donor."
By doing full system health check-ups on all of our athletes; blood work, echocardiograms, maybe even MRIs.
Eventually, she was diagnosed with arrhythmia and had an echocardiogram.
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