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ecg

noun

Simple meaning

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

Pronunciation

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ikg
US device voice
IPA pronunciation (US)

ɪkɡ

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Definition

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noun

  1. cardiology

    A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph

  2. cardiology

    The recording that an electrocardiograph produces.

  3. One of two major subgroups of the Central German dialects; spoken primarily in the German states of Thuringia, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Brandenburg, and Berlin, and until 1945 in large parts of what is now western and southern Poland; distinguished from West Central German by the shift of pre-Old High German initial *p- to pf- (now usually f-).

  4. broadcasting

    Initialism of electronic character generator.

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Sense: graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph

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