How to Use electrocardiogram in a Sentence

electrocardiogram

noun
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  • The tattoo is located on the back of his neck and shows a pair of hands making the shape of a heart with an electrocardiogram in between them.
    — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 3 Jan. 2024
  • That test could be a stress test that tracks the patient with an electrocardiogram while running on a treadmill.
    — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 6 June 2018
  • Regan was seen quickly and given a chest X-ray and electrocardiogram, known as an EKG, to check his lungs and heart.
    — Dallas News, 31 May 2020
  • For a few moments afterward, the beeps of an electrocardiogram machine were the only sounds in the room.
    — New York Times, 23 Oct. 2021
  • The volunteers wore the electrocardiogram for five minutes prior to the ride so the researchers could gauge their resting heart rates.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Bringing a copy of a recent electrocardiogram and a negative stress test is a good idea.
    — Sammy Caiola, sacbee.com, 6 May 2017
  • Also showing on the screen was an electrocardiogram that displayed the heart was pumping 70 beats per minute.
    — Kristen Griffith, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 24 Aug. 2021
  • The Series 4 watch can now give users an electrocardiogram (ECG)—something which, up 'til now, has never been available over the counter and direct to consumers.
    — Teen Vogue, 12 Sep. 2018
  • The name relates to the electrical waveforms produced by the heart on an electrocardiogram trace, which contort and writhe.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2023
  • One man spoke about putting on his own leads because staff members couldn’t figure out how to use an electrocardiogram.
    — Saja Hindi, The Denver Post, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Trump took the drug for two weeks along with zinc and vitamin D and was monitored by his doctors for issues through the use of an electrocardiogram, the report read.
    — Caitlin Yilek, Washington Examiner, 3 June 2020
  • Those include an electrocardiogram to see how your heart is doing, and blood tests to check your carbon monoxide and cyanide levels.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Watch users could get an improved electrocardiogram feature to check heart rate.
    — Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Take the electrocardiogram, which renders the heart’s electrical activity as lines on a page or a screen.
    — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2017
  • Her blood was drawn, and a urine sample was taken; she was also given an electrocardiogram, an ultrasound, and a chest X-ray.
    — David Remnic, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Fragments of a more vibrant me lie buried beneath the amiodarone IV drips, erratic jagged lines on electrocardiograms, and the thought of life without my husband.
    — Jacque Gorelick, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2020
  • The doctored cartoon shows Lewis lying in a hospital bed in his neck brace with Edward pulling the plug on Lewis’s equipment and a flatlined electrocardiogram screen.
    — Hannah Chubb, PEOPLE.com, 27 Aug. 2020
  • One of the goals, Freeman said, is to perform a 12-lead electrocardiogram within 10 minutes of patient contact.
    — Linda Gandee, cleveland, 6 Sep. 2021
  • One line was an electrocardiogram printout, dashed rather than solid owing to the system the Soviets used to transfer the data.
    — Amy Shira Teitel, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2017
  • By using its washable circuits with sensors, sewn into the lining of the bra, which will then track electrocardiogram signals from the ticker.
    — Donna Freydkin, Allure, 22 June 2017
  • Even scarier was the pattern on her electrocardiogram (EKG).
    — Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 18 June 2022
  • The data, known as spectra, appears to astronomers as a simple squiggly line on a plot, like a cosmic electrocardiogram.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2017
  • My Apple Watch charts my resting pulse and does a simple electrocardiogram.
    — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2019
  • Other tests may include x-rays, blood tests, electrocardiogram, and ultrasound - the test of choice to diagnose DCM.
    — Iris Katz, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 16 Aug. 2019
  • There, Gracie was given a series of tests including an electrocardiogram (EKG), a head scan, and blood pressure tests — all of which came back normal.
    — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 16 July 2019
  • Some of these instruments can yield images of the beating heart or create electrocardiogram graphs.
    — courant.com, 23 Oct. 2019
  • The device’s instructions tell wearers to place their thumb over a spot on the watchband embedded with an electrocardiogram sensor, which records their heart rhythm.
    — Deborah Gage, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2018
  • Rather, your doctor will have to perform tests to make the diagnosis, like an electrocardiogram, an echocardiogram, and blood tests.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
  • The inquest heard that when Gibson went to hospital with his symptoms, an electrocardiogram (ECG) was carried out.
    — Becca Longmire, Peoplemag, 5 June 2024
  • Ganguli studied patients who received a routine electrocardiogram before a low-risk cataract surgery.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2024

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