Definition of Kymograph

1. Noun. Scientific instrument consisting of a rotating drum holding paper on which a stylus traces a continuous record (as of breathing or blood pressure).

Exact synonyms: Cymograph
Generic synonyms: Scientific Instrument

Definition of Kymograph

1. n. An instrument for measuring, and recording graphically, the pressure of the blood in any of the blood vessels of a living animal; -- called also kymographion.

Definition of Kymograph

1. Noun. A device that gives a graphical representation of a variation in a phenomenon such as blood pressure over time, using a pen on a rotating drum. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Kymograph

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Kymograph

1. An instrument for measuring, and recording graphically, the pressure of the blood in any of the blood vessels of a living animal. Synonym: kymographion. Origin: Gr. Wave + -graph. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kymograph

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Literary usage of Kymograph

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Gaseous Metabolism of Infants: With Special Reference to Its Relation to by Francis Gano Benedict, Fritz Bradley Talbot (1914)
"Typical kymograph curve, showing record of the muscular activity and the ... Typical kymograph curves obtained with the ward crib recorder 61 10. ..."

2. Gaseous Exchange and Physiological Requirements for Level and Grade Walking by Henry Monmouth Smith (1922)
"The lower record (A) in figure 15 is the reproduction of a kymograph tracing when the ... Reproduction of kymograph records in mouthpiece experimenta ..."

3. Manual of Mental and Physical Tests: A Book of Directions Compiled with by Guy Montrose Whipple (1914)
"kymograph, IN HORIZONTAL POSITION. A clock-work mechanism, with regulating ... With the aid of the kymograph described in Test 10, E may secure a graphic ..."

4. A Text-book of Human Physiology by Robert Adolph Armand Tigerstedt (1906)
"A. THE kymograph [A very simple illustration of the graphic method is given in Fig. 1, where the simple contraction of a frog's muscle is being recorded on ..."

5. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1894)
"LUDWIG'S kymograph FOR RECORDING OK A CONTINUOUS ROLL OF PAPER. the pressure of the atmosphere on the ascending distal limb, so that when communication is ..."

6. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1895)
"A kymograph AND ITS USE. BY WS WINDLE. The science of physiology in its present condition owes much of its advancement to the skillful manipulation of ..."

7. A Study of Metabolism in Severe Diabetes by Francis Gano Benedict, Elliott Proctor Joslin (1912)
"... normal subjects were more often untrained than were the diabetics with most of whom experiments were frequently made. EVIDENCE OF THE kymograph RECORDS. ..."

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