How to Use electrocardiogram in a Sentence

electrocardiogram

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• Bringing a copy of a recent electrocardiogram and a negative stress test is a good idea.
  — Sammy Caiola, sacbee.com, 6 May 2017
• 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 Series 4 watch can now give users an electrocardiogram (ECG)—something which, up 'til now, has never been available over the counter and direct to consumers.
  — Teen Vogue, 12 Sep. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Watch users could get an improved electrocardiogram feature to check heart rate.
  — Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2020
• 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
• 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
• Fragments of a more vibrant me lie buried beneath the amiodarone IV drips, erratic jagged lines on electrocardiograms, and the thought of life without my husband.
  — Jacque Gorelick, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2020
• The doctored cartoon shows Lewis lying in a hospital bed in his neck brace with Edward pulling the plug on Lewis’s equipment and a flatlined electrocardiogram screen.
  — Hannah Chubb, PEOPLE.com, 27 Aug. 2020
• One of the goals, Freeman said, is to perform a 12-lead electrocardiogram within 10 minutes of patient contact.
  — Linda Gandee, cleveland, 6 Sep. 2021
• 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
• 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
• Even scarier was the pattern on her electrocardiogram (EKG).
  — Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 18 June 2022
• 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
• My Apple Watch charts my resting pulse and does a simple electrocardiogram.
  — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2019
• Other tests may include x-rays, blood tests, electrocardiogram, and ultrasound - the test of choice to diagnose DCM.
  — Iris Katz, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 16 Aug. 2019
• There, Gracie was given a series of tests including an electrocardiogram (EKG), a head scan, and blood pressure tests — all of which came back normal.
  — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 16 July 2019
• Some of these instruments can yield images of the beating heart or create electrocardiogram graphs.
  — courant.com, 23 Oct. 2019
• 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
• 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
• This might include an electrocardiogram, echocardiogram, or a special test called a pyrophosphate scan, which can detect amyloid deposits in the heart.
  — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 9 July 2024
• Diagnosis often requires an overnight sleep study and sometimes an electrocardiogram test.
  — Cristina Mutchler, Verywell Health, 24 July 2024

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024