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Words with a similar base: ballistocardiograph, cardiograph, electrocardiograph

'cardiograph'

[cardiograph.n.01] as in: medical instrument that records electric currents associated with contractions of the heart

'cardiograph'

[ballistocardiograph.n.01] as in: 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

Origins

					cardiograph (English)
├── -graph (English)
└── cardio- (English)
    └── καρδία (Ancient Greek (to 1453))