Definition of echocardiography in English:
echocardiography
noun ˌɛkəʊkɑːdɪˈɒɡrəfiˌɛkoʊˌkɑrdiˈɑɡrəfi
mass nounThe use of ultrasound waves to investigate the action of the heart.
Example sentencesExamples
- Other screening methods could be simplified echocardiography, computerised heart auscultation, or new biochemical markers.
- Two of the 310 children were diagnosed as having rheumatic heart disease based on auscultatory findings and echocardiography.
- This phenomenon has been reported for exercise ECG, exercise echocardiography, and nuclear imaging.
- Moreover, patients identified by simple tests as likely to have heart failure need echocardiography to confirm the diagnosis and establish its probable cause.
- If such patients have clinical auscultatory findings of MVP, echocardiography usually confirms the diagnosis.
Derivatives
nounɛkəʊˈkɑːdɪəɡrɑːf
Patients with signs of aortic stenosis on physical examination should undergo testing, including chest x-ray, electrocardiograph and echocardiograph.
Example sentencesExamples
- Well, now I've had a ‘Persantine’ stress test performed, using radioactive thallium, a very thorough, definitive, cardiac examination, including an echocardiograph.
- All patients with signs or symptoms of mitral valve prolapse should have an initial echocardiograph.
- Cardiac evaluation was completed by clinical examination, electrocardiogram and echocardiograph.
- The PPH and SPH groups essentially were identical in BMI, New York Heart Association functional class at presentation, and pulmonary artery pressures as measured by echocardiograph and by cardiac catheterization.
adjective
Secondly, problems with the echocardiographic diagnosis of mitral valve prolapse have occurred.
Example sentencesExamples
- He or she will also perhaps suggest a fetal echocardiographic examination at roughly 20 to 24 weeks of pregnancy to evaluate the fetal heart.
- In contrast, patients with regurgitant valvular lesions require careful echocardiographic monitoring for left ventricular function and may require surgery even if no symptoms are present.
- Because he had severe symptoms and inconclusive electrocardiographic findings, he had transthoracic echocardiographic ultrasonography to confirm acute myocardial ischaemia.
- Thrombolytic therapy in PE quickly improves lung scans and angiographic or echocardiographic findings but has not been shown to reduce mortality.
Definition of echocardiography in US English:
echocardiography
nounˌekōˌkärdēˈäɡrəfēˌɛkoʊˌkɑrdiˈɑɡrəfi
The use of ultrasound waves to investigate the action of the heart.
Example sentencesExamples
- This phenomenon has been reported for exercise ECG, exercise echocardiography, and nuclear imaging.
- Moreover, patients identified by simple tests as likely to have heart failure need echocardiography to confirm the diagnosis and establish its probable cause.
- Two of the 310 children were diagnosed as having rheumatic heart disease based on auscultatory findings and echocardiography.
- If such patients have clinical auscultatory findings of MVP, echocardiography usually confirms the diagnosis.
- Other screening methods could be simplified echocardiography, computerised heart auscultation, or new biochemical markers.