Definition of "cardiograph" []

• An instrument used to record the mechanical movements of the heart. (noun)
• See electrocardiograph. (noun)

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• "The whole work is a like a heart cardiograph— a mechanical reflection of a life rhythm."
• "Themba also received diagnostic orthopedic equipment, physiotherapy machines, an ultrasound scanner and a foetal cardiograph for its maternity unit."
• "“Not fifteen years ago English doctors experimenting with a portable cardiograph at the Sheffield mortuary detected signs of life in a young woman certified dead from a drug overdose.”"