electrocardiogram

English

Etymology

From electro- +‎ cardio- +‎ -gram, Modelled on German Electrocardiogramm(modern German Elektrokardiogramm) ^[1]

Pronunciation

(Canada) IPA^(key): /əˌlɛktɹəˈkɑɹdi.əˌɡɹæm/
- Audio (Southern England): (file)

Noun

electrocardiogram (plural electrocardiograms)

(cardiology) The recording that an electrocardiograph produces.
Alternative forms: ECG (initialism), EKG (initialism, from German)

Synonym: cardiogram

Related terms

electrocardiograph (the device that creates the recording)
electrocardiography (the process that the device performs)
echocardiogram (not to be confused)

Translations

trace of an electrocardiograph

Arabic: مُخَطَط كَهْرَبِيَّة اَلْقَلْب (muḵaṭṭaṭ kahrabiyyat l-qalb), إِلِكْتْرُوكَارْدِيُوغْرَام m (ʔiliktrukardiyuḡrām)
Catalan: electrocardiograma (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 心電圖 / 心电图 (zh) (xīndiàntú)
Czech: elektrokardiogram m
Dutch: elektrocardiogram (nl) n, hartfilm m (Netherlands, informal)
Esperanto: elektrokardiografiaĵo, elektrokardiogramo
Estonian: elektrokardiogramm (et)
Finnish: elektrokardiogrammi (fi), sydänsähkökäyrä
French: électrocardiogramme (fr) m
German: Elektrokardiogramm (de) n, EKG (de) n
Greek: ηλεκτροκαρδιογράφημα (el) n (ilektrokardiográfima)
Hindi: please add this translation if you can
Hungarian: elektrokardiogram (hu), EKG (hu)
Ido: elektrokardiogramo (io)
Indonesian: elektrokardiogram (id)
Irish: leictreacardagram m
Italian: elettrocardiogramma (it) m
Japanese: 心電図 (ja) (しんでんず, shindenzu)
Kazakh: электрокардиограмма (élektrokardiogramma)
Korean: 심전도(心電圖) (ko) (simjeondo)
Persian: نوار قلب (navâr-e qalb)
Polish: elektrokardiogram (pl) m
Portuguese: eletrocardiograma (pt) m
Romanian: electrocardiogramă (ro) f
Russian: электрокардиогра́мма (ru) f (elektrokardiográmma), ЭКГ (ru) f (EKG)
Spanish: electrocardiograma (es) m
Swedish: elektrokardiogram (sv) n
Tagalog: pangguhitab-puso
Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
Urdu: برقی قلب نگاری (barqī qalb nigārī)
Vietnamese: điện tâm đồ (vi) (心電圖 (vi))
Welsh: electrocardiogram m

References

^ “electrocardiogram, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

[1] “electrocardiogram, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

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