How to Use electrocardiogram in a Sentence

electrocardiogram

noun
  • Watch users could get an improved electrocardiogram feature to check heart rate.
    — Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Heart function can be tracked in real time with an electrocardiogram.
    — Alexis Kayser, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 2025
  • That test could be a stress test that tracks the patient with an electrocardiogram while running on a treadmill.
    — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 6 June 2018
  • One man spoke about putting on his own leads because staff members couldn’t figure out how to use an electrocardiogram.
    — Saja Hindi, The Denver Post, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Bringing a copy of a recent electrocardiogram and a negative stress test is a good idea.
    — Sammy Caiola, sacbee.com, 6 May 2017
  • For a few moments afterward, the beeps of an electrocardiogram machine were the only sounds in the room.
    — New York Times, 23 Oct. 2021
  • The tattoo is located on the back of his neck and shows a pair of hands making the shape of a heart with an electrocardiogram in between them.
    — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Those include an electrocardiogram to see how your heart is doing, and blood tests to check your carbon monoxide and cyanide levels.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Old-fashioned writing requires bursts of focus that remind me of the sharp spikes of an electrocardiogram.
    — Cal Newport, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Some of these instruments can yield images of the beating heart or create electrocardiogram graphs.
    — courant.com, 23 Oct. 2019
  • One monitor showed a spike like a bad electrocardiogram, a sign that output was not as consistent as desired.
    — David J. Lynch, Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2019
  • Also showing on the screen was an electrocardiogram that displayed the heart was pumping 70 beats per minute.
    — Kristen Griffith, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 24 Aug. 2021
  • The volunteers wore the electrocardiogram for five minutes prior to the ride so the researchers could gauge their resting heart rates.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The name relates to the electrical waveforms produced by the heart on an electrocardiogram trace, which contort and writhe.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Take the electrocardiogram, which renders the heart’s electrical activity as lines on a page or a screen.
    — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2017
  • My Apple Watch charts my resting pulse and does a simple electrocardiogram.
    — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2019
  • The data, known as spectra, appears to astronomers as a simple squiggly line on a plot, like a cosmic electrocardiogram.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Her blood was drawn, and a urine sample was taken; she was also given an electrocardiogram, an ultrasound, and a chest X-ray.
    — David Remnic, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Rather, your doctor will have to perform tests to make the diagnosis, like an electrocardiogram, an echocardiogram, and blood tests.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
  • By using its washable circuits with sensors, sewn into the lining of the bra, which will then track electrocardiogram signals from the ticker.
    — Donna Freydkin, Allure, 22 June 2017
  • The wearer will put a finger on this sensor, with another set of sensors under the wrist to allow for the electrocardiogram feature.
    — Andrew Williams, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • The device’s instructions tell wearers to place their thumb over a spot on the watchband embedded with an electrocardiogram sensor, which records their heart rhythm.
    — Deborah Gage, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2018
  • For instance, there may be changes in an electrocardiogram, or EKG, similar to a heart attack.
    — Allison Aubrey, NPR, 17 Feb. 2025
  • Trump took the drug for two weeks along with zinc and vitamin D and was monitored by his doctors for issues through the use of an electrocardiogram, the report read.
    — Caitlin Yilek, Washington Examiner, 3 June 2020
  • Type The typical heart rate monitor is a strap that goes around your lower chest and uses an electrocardiogram signal to measure your heart rate.
    — Stephen Slaybaugh, Popular Mechanics, 11 May 2023
  • Regan was seen quickly and given a chest X-ray and electrocardiogram, known as an EKG, to check his lungs and heart.
    — Dallas News, 31 May 2020
  • One line was an electrocardiogram printout, dashed rather than solid owing to the system the Soviets used to transfer the data.
    — Amy Shira Teitel, Discover Magazine, 3 Nov. 2017
  • In 1938, officials performed an electrocardiogram on a Utah inmate who was put to death by firing squad.
    — Dakin Andone, CNN Money, 10 Apr. 2025
  • The Series 6 boasts an always-on display, the ability to provide blood oxygen levels and even take an electrocardiogram on your wrist.
    — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 30 Nov. 2020
  • Within a hundred and fifty years, the stethoscope, the thermometer, the blood-pressure cuff, and the electrocardiogram became standard medical tools.
    — Clayton Dalton, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2020

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