| 释义 |
echocardiography, n.|ˌɛkəʊkɑːdɪˈɒgrəfɪ|
[f. echo n. + cardiography n. s.v. cardio-.]
The use of reflected ultrasound to examine the heart and its movement.
1965Sci. News Let. 19 June 386/2 The unique feature of echocardiography is its ability to display and photograph sonar echoes on a TV screen as well as record them on a direct writing device. 1976I. G. McDonald Echocardiography i. 7 Examination of the heart by ultrasound was initially called ‘Ultrasound-cardiography’ but the name used now is ‘Echocardiography’. The technique was first used by Hertz and Edler in Sweden in 1953. 1977Lancet 13 Aug. 313/2 Echocardiography was done in the standard manner; prolapse of the mitral valve was diagnosed only during sinus beats. 1989Ibid. 3 June 1223/1 Echocardiography showed no difference in the ventricular wall mass between the treatment periods.
Hence ˌechoˈcardiogram n., a record or tracing obtained in echocardiography; ˌechocardiˈographer n., one who practises echocardiography; echocardioˈgraphic a.
[1961Acta Med. Scand. Suppl. CCCLXX. 59 (heading) Echograms from heart structures in living man. The ultrasoundcardiogram.] 1966B. L. Segal et al. in Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. CXCV. 161/1 An echocardiogram is the graphic registration of ultrasound waves reflected from the heart. 1966New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 17 Feb. 380/1 The noun ‘echocardiogram’ and the adjective ‘echocardiographic’ succinctly describe the ultrasound cardiac recording. 1970R. Ilmurzyńska in Proc. Conf. Ultrasonics in Biol. & Med. 137 Mitral echocardiograms were recorded using a Polish ultrasonocardiograph UKG-1. 1972H. Feigenbaum Echocardiography p. viii, The echocardiographic laboratory from which most of this book has been derived. 1977Lancet 19 Feb. 402/2 Most books have been directed towards those who wish to become expert echocardiographers. 1987Brit. Med. Jrnl. 1 Aug. 305/2, 11 of the 34 patients without any of the predictors had an abnormal echocardiogram, in two cases showing left atrial or ventricular thrombi. |