electrocardiograph

1. 1.

   medical instrument that records electric currents associated with contractions of the heart

   Synonymscardiograph

   Broadermedical instrument

   Part ofcardiac monitor

Other forms of electrocardiograph

plural

electrocardiographs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about electrocardiograph

What does electrocardiograph mean?

electrocardiograph means "medical instrument that records electric currents associated with contractions of the heart".

How many syllables are in electrocardiograph?

electrocardiograph has 7 syllables: e-lec-tro-car-di-o-graph. The stress falls on "di".

What is another word for electrocardiograph?

Close synonyms include cardiograph. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is electrocardiograph a common word?

electrocardiograph is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.