ECHOCARDIOGRAM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does echocardiogram mean? 

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

1. a graphical image of the heart produced by an echocardiograph

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ECHOCARDIOGRAM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A graphical image of the heart produced by an echocardiograph

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("echocardiogram" 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)

 Context examples 

A fluorinated hydrocarbon and gaseous substance used as an imaging contrast agent in echocardiogram.

(Perflexane, NCI Thesaurus)

They may also use an echocardiogram or other tests.

(Kawasaki Disease, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)