apexcardiography
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
37
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
6
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A noninvasive procedure for recording movements of the precordium in order to measure the beat in the cardiac apex.
Example Sentences
- "Lian et al (1941) and Taquini et al (1940) routinely used apexcardiography in differentiating a split second heart sound from the opening snap and third heart sound in mitral valve disease."
- "All 14 of the patients who improved during the digoxin period had exhibited a third heart sound, whereas only one of the 11 patients who was not improved had exhibited this sign (Fig. 2) (the existence of an audible third heart sound was verified by phonocardiography or apexcardiography in all but one instance)."
- "Visual observation of these movements ("rotatorische Einziehung") was customary long before the exact correlation between apexcardiography, electrocardiography, phoncardiography and intracardiac pressure curves became possible, and was believed to inform about the mechanical event during the cardiac cycle."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep-der. Proto-Italic *apeks Latin apexbor. English apex Proto-Indo-European *ḱerd- Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥díyeh₂ Proto-Hellenic *kərdíyā Ancient Greek καρδία (kardía)lbor. English cardio- Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-ā́ Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā) Ancient Greek -η (-ē) Ancient Greek γραφή (graphḗ) Ancient Greek -γραφίᾱ (-graphíā)bor. French -graphieder. English -graphy English cardiography English apexcardiography From apex + cardiography.