kymogram
(ˈkaɪməʊgræm)
[f. kymograph + -gram.]
A recording made with a kymograph (sense 1 or 2). a. Radiology. (Corresponding to kymograph 2.) Also (and orig.) called a roentgenkymogram.
| 1923 Proc. R. Soc. Med. XVI. (Electro-Therapeutics Section) 21 For taking the kymogram a Polyphos universal inductor with a rapid switch was used. 1941 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 11 Jan. 117/1 Such a paradoxical movement [of the heart] may be recorded in some instances by kymogram, but this affords help only as a permanent record of what can be seen much more satisfactorily by the fluoroscope. 1959 Boone & Noble in A. A. Luisada Cardiol. II. iv. viii. 205/1 Roentgen kymography has not become thoroughly established as a mandatory procedure in the examination of the heart. It seems that this is due to the analytical difficulties inherent in the fuzziness, smallness, and brevity of the recorded waves to be examined on the roentgen kymogram,..and the difficulties of simultaneously recording, on the kymogram, curves of other cardiac events. |
b. (Corresponding to kymograph 1.) Esp. in Phonetics, a recording of pressure variations produced during articulation.
| 1934 Amer. Speech IX. 229/1 Kymograms are obtained from discs by means of an electromagnetic inscriber. 1950 [see centisecond]. 1964 N. C. Scott in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 434 Kymograms for such a word..show wave-forms between the sections for the stops on the mouth tracings. |