echocardiography

English

Etymology

From echo +‎ cardiography.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi

Noun

echocardiography (countable and uncountable, plural echocardiographies)

1. (medicine) The use of ultrasound to produce images of the heart; especially, cardiac ultrasonography done with cardiology-specific devices and training, as contrasted with POCUS applied cardiovascularly by any clinician.

Derived terms

• echocardiographical

 

Related terms

• echocardiogram
• echocardiograph

Translations

use of ultrasound to produce images of the heart

• Catalan: ecocardiografia f
• Czech: echokardiografie (cs) f
• Finnish: sydämen ultraäänikuvaus, ekokardiografia
• French: échocardiographie (fr) f
• Hungarian: echokardiográfia (hu)
• Indonesian: ekokardiografi
• Italian: ecocardiografia (it) f
• Portuguese: ecocardiografia f
• Russian: эхокардиография (ru) f (exokardiografija)
• Spanish: ecocardiografía f
• Turkish: ekokardiyografi, kalp ultrasonu

See also

• electrocardiography (a form of electrophysiology not to be hastily confused)

Anagrams

• cardioechography