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echocardiography
(redirected from Echo cardiogram)

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echocardiography [‚ek·ō‚kärd·ē′äg·rə·fē]
(medicine)
A diagnostic technique for the heart that uses a transducer held against the chest to send high-frequency sound waves which pass harmlessly into the heart; as they strike structures within the heart, they are reflected back to the transducer and recorded on an oscilloscope.


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Ralph said doctors were uncertain what caused Camby to collapse based on preliminary tests that included an echo cardiogram, blood work, CAT scan, brain MRI and spinal tap.
 
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