ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does echocardiography mean? 

• ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY (noun)
  The noun ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY has 1 sense:

1. a noninvasive diagnostic procedure that uses ultrasound to study to structure and motions of the heart

  Familiarity information: ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A noninvasive diagnostic procedure that uses ultrasound to study to structure and motions of the heart

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("echocardiography" is a kind of...):

diagnostic procedure; diagnostic technique (a procedure followed in making a medical diagnosis)

 Context examples 

At the frequencies used in adult echocardiography (2-5 MHZ) the microspheres resonate, which further increases the extent of ultrasound scattering and reflection.

(Perflutren Protein-Type A Microspheres, NCI Thesaurus)

The study and analysis of the normal or abnormal functioning of the heart using methods such as echocardiography, exercise stress cardiography, 24-hour Holter EKG and magnetic resonance imaging.

(Cardiac Function Study, NCI Thesaurus)

The hydrochloride salt form of arbutamine, a synthetic catecholamine with positive chronotropic and inotropic properties, used in echocardiography and diagnostic coronary angiography.

(Arbutamine Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

A synthetic catecholamine with positive chronotropic and inotropic properties, used in echocardiography and diagnostic coronary angiography.

(Arbutamine, NCI Thesaurus)