rheocardiography

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English

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Etymology

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From rheo- +‎ cardiography.

Noun

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rheocardiography (countable and uncountable, plural rheocardiographies)

  1. The measurement of hemodynamic parameters of the heart (such as stroke volume and cardiac output) by passing a high-frequency current of small amplitude through the chest and recording changes in electrical resistance.
    • 1951, Excerpta Medica: Pediatrics - Volume 5, page 234:
      Rheocardiography seemed to be of valuable assistance in diagnosing these cases and in recording the separate stages of the condition.
    • 2000, Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering, page 106:
      The biophysical principles of impedance rheocardiography were first substantiated by Russian (A. A. Kedrov, Yu. T. Pushkar) and foreign (W. G. Kubicek, B. Sramek) researchers in the 1940-1960s.
    • 2012, Nikolai N. Korpan, Basics of Cryosurgery, →ISBN:
      Judging from results of rheocardiography, the increase in the severity of cooling is accompanied by an increase in hemodynamic and cardiac rhythm impairment and increase of blood pressure.