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  • noun Plural form of cardiogram.

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Examples

  • Although it has been superseded by portable types and by models utilizing amplification techniques used in radio communication (Einthoven has always mistrusted the use of condensers, fearing the distortion of curves), cardiograms from the string galvanometer have remained the standard of reference in numerous cases to this day.

    Willem Einthoven - Biography 1965

  • Mr. Ortega has used the money to strengthen an already potent political machine while funding social programs such as Zero Hunger, Zero Usury, and Houses for the People which give away chickens and cows, provides public transport subsidies, free mammograms and cardiograms as well as cheap loans.

    Nicaragua's Ortega Set to Win Election José de Córdoba 2011

  • Mr. Ortega has used the Venezuelan money to strengthen an already potent political machine while funding social programs such as Zero Hunger, which gives away chickens and cows, and Zero Usury, which provides cheap loans, as well as public-transport subsidies and free mammograms and cardiograms.

    Nicaragua's Ortega Wins in Landslide José de Córdoba 2011

  • For example, artificial-intelligence researchers, including Kurzweil himself, have invented programs that can read text, translate languages, recognize speech, interpret cardiograms and play championship-level chess.

    Science Cult 2009

  • In coming weeks, researchers at Mayo and nine other centers will perform echo-cardiograms on 1,200 obese patients -- 400 who used fen-phen, 400 who took Redux and 400 untreated controls -- to narrow the search for a culprit.

    After Fen-Phen 2008

  • GUPTA: Electro cardiograms for your heart, and an easy self - testicular (ph) exam.

    CNN Transcript Feb 24, 2006 2006

  • The blood tests, x-rays, cardiograms, and medications may have burned right through that.

    Firedoglake » Oh, I DO Believe in Faeries…I Do, I Do 2006

  • The blood tests, x-rays, cardiograms, and medications may have burned right through that.

    Firedoglake » Oh, I DO Believe in Faeries…I Do, I Do 2006

  • Apparently it's also common there to refer to cardiograms as "heartiograms".

    languagehat.com: "MISPRONOUNCED" WORDS. 2004

  • Next came all the lab results, the cardiograms, and finally the X-ray reports" MRIs, CT scans, angiograms" all peering into the state of his brain.

    Critical Condition Clement, Peter, M.D 2002

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