electrocardiography

English

Etymology

From electro +‎ cardio- +‎ -graphy.

Noun

electrocardiography (countable and uncountable, plural electrocardiographies)

1. The science and practice of the creation and diagnostic interpretation of electrocardiograms.

   Synonyms: ECG (initialism), EKG (initialism, from German)

Related terms

• electrocardiograph (the device that performs the process)

Translations

the science of preparation and diagnostic interpretation of electrocardiograms

• Afrikaans: elektrokardiografie
• Albanian: elektrokardiografia f
• Azerbaijani: elektrokardioqrafiya
• Bashkir: электрокардиография (elektrokardiografiya)
• Belarusian: электракардыяграфія f (eljektrakardyjahrafija)
• Bengali: ইলেকট্রোকার্ডিওগ্রাফি (ilekṭrōkarḍiōgraphi)
• Breton: elektrokardiografiezh f
• Catalan: electrocardiografia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 心電描記術 / 心电描记术 (xīn diàn miáojì shù), 心電圖學 / 心电图学 (xīndiàntúxué)

• Danish: elektrokardiografi c
• Dutch: elektrocardiograaf (nl) m, elektrocardiografie (nl) f
• Esperanto: elektrokardiografio
• Finnish: elektrokardiografia (fi)
• French: électrocardiographie (fr) f
• German: Elektrokardiografie f
• Hindi: इलैक्ट्रोकार्डियोग्राफी (ilaikṭrokārḍiyogrāphī)
• Hungarian: elektrokardiográfia (hu)
• Indonesian: elektrokardiografi
• Irish: leictreacardagrafaíocht f
• Italian: elettrocardiografia (it) f
• Jamaican Creole: ilekchokaadiagrafi
• Kazakh: электрокардиография (élektrokardiografiä)
• Kyrgyz: электрокардиография (elektrokardiografiya)
• Latvian: elektrokardiogrāfija f
• Lithuanian: elektrokardiografija f
• Macedonian: електрокардиографија f (elektrokardiografija)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: elektrokardiografi m

  Nynorsk: elektrokardiografi m

• Polish: elektrokardiografia (pl) f
• Romanian: electrocardiografie (ro) f
• Russian: электрокардиогра́фия (ru) f (elektrokardiográfija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: електрокардиогра̀фија f

  Roman: elektrokardiogràfija (sh) f

• Slovak: elektrokardiografia f
• Slovene: elektrokardiografija f
• Spanish: electrocardiografía (es) f
• Swedish: elektrokardiografi c
• Tamil: எலக்ட்ரோகார்டியோகிராஃபி (elakṭrōkārṭiyōkirāfi)
• Turkish: elektrokardiyografi (tr)
• Ukrainian: електрокардіографі́я f (elektrokardiohrafíja)
• Waray-Waray: elektrokardyograpiya

See also

• echocardiography (a form of ultrasonography not to be hastily confused)