electrocardiogram

English

A 12-lead electrocardiogram.

Alternative forms

• EKG (initialism)

Etymology

From electro- +‎ cardio- +‎ -gram, Modelled on German Electrocardiogramm(modern German Elektrokardiogramm)

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /əˌlɛktɹəˈkɑɹdi.əˌɡɹæm/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

electrocardiogram (plural electrocardiograms)

1. (cardiology) The recording that an electrocardiograph produces.

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

Related terms

• electrocardiograph (the device that creates the recording)
• electrocardiography (the process that the device performs)

Translations

trace of an electrocardiograph

• Arabic: مُخَطَط كَهْرَبِيَّة اَلْقَلْب (muḵaṭṭaṭ kahrabiyyat l-qalb), إِلِكْتْرُوكَارْدِيُوغْرَام m (ʔiliktrukardiyuḡrām)
• Catalan: electrocardiograma (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 心電圖／心电图 (zh) (xīndiàntú)

• Czech: elektrokardiogram m
• Dutch: elektrocardiogram (nl) n, hartfilm m (Netherlands, informal)
• Esperanto: elektrokardiografiaĵo, elektrokardiogramo
• Estonian: elektrokardiogramm (et)
• Finnish: elektrokardiogrammi (fi), sydänsähkökäyrä
• French: électrocardiogramme (fr) m
• German: Elektrokardiogramm (de) n, EKG (de) n
• Greek: ηλεκτροκαρδιογράφημα (el) n (ilektrokardiográfima)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: elektrokardiogram (hu), EKG (hu)
• Ido: elektrokardiogramo (io)
• Indonesian: elektrokardiogram (id)
• Irish: leictreacardagram m
• Italian: elettrocardiogramma (it) m
• Japanese: 心電図 (ja) (しんでんず, shindenzu)
• Korean: 심전도(心電圖) (ko) (simjeondo)
• Persian: نوار قلب (navâr-e qalb)
• Portuguese: eletrocardiograma (pt) m
• Romanian: electrocardiogramă (ro) f
• Russian: электрокардиогра́мма (ru) f (elektrokardiográmma), ЭКГ (ru) f (EKG)
• Spanish: electrocardiograma (es) m
• Swedish: elektrokardiogram (sv) n
• Tagalog: pangguhitab-puso
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Urdu: برقی قلب نگاری (barqī qalb nigārī)
• Vietnamese: điện tâm đồ (心電圖)
• Welsh: electrocardiogram m