HEART MONITOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does heart monitor mean? 

• HEART MONITOR (noun)
  The noun HEART MONITOR has 1 sense:

1. a piece of electronic equipment for continual observation of the function of the heart

  Familiarity information: HEART MONITOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEART MONITOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A piece of electronic equipment for continual observation of the function of the heart

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cardiac monitor; heart monitor

Hypernyms ("heart monitor" is a kind of...):

monitor (a piece of electronic equipment that keeps track of the operation of a system continuously and warns of trouble)

Meronyms (parts of "heart monitor"):

ballistocardiograph; cardiograph (a medical instrument that measures the mechanical force of cardiac contractions and the amount of blood passing through the heart during a specified period by measuring the recoil of the body as blood is pumped from the ventricles)

cardiograph; electrocardiograph (medical instrument that records electric currents associated with contractions of the heart)

cathode-ray oscilloscope; CRO; oscilloscope; scope (electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities)

 Context examples 

Trudel's advice to those who work long hours: Try wearing a heart monitor to monitor your blood pressure over a period of time, rather than monitoring on a one-off or irregular basis.

(High Blood Pressure Liked to Long Hours on Job, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A fetal heart monitor finding where there is a change in the beats per minute from one fetal heart beat to the next.

(Fetal Heart Beat to Beat Variability, NCI Thesaurus)