EKG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does EKG mean? 

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

1. a graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• EKG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

cardiogram; ECG; EKG; electrocardiogram

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

graph; graphical record; graphical recording (a visual representation of the relations between certain quantities, represented as points, plotted with reference to a set of axes)

Holonyms ("EKG" is a part of...):

checkup; health check; medical; medical checkup; medical exam; medical examination (a thorough physical examination; includes a variety of tests depending on the age and sex and health of the person)

 Context examples 

Also refers to a device that records and/or displays patient data, such as for an electrocardiogram (EKG).

(Monitor, NCI Dictionary)

Doctors diagnose AF using family and medical history, a physical exam, and a test called an electrocardiogram (EKG), which looks at the electrical waves your heart makes.

(Atrial Fibrillation, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

An electrocardiographic finding of a myocardial infarction that does not produce elevations in the ST segment of the EKG.

(Non-ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction by ECG Finding, 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)

EXAMPLE(S): tongue depressor, pacemaker, insulin pump, EKG machine, x-ray machine, mass spectrometer, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) machine, microscope, pH meter.

(Medical device, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

Also called ECG and EKG.

(Electrocardiogram, NCI Dictionary)

Also called EKG and electrocardiogram.

(ECG, NCI Dictionary)

A bipolar EKG lead with the right thoracic limb electrode placed on the manubrium and left thoracic limb electrode placed at the surface marking of the V5 position (just above the 5th interspace in the anterior axillary line).

(Lead Site CM5, NCI Thesaurus)