echocardiography
echocardiography
Definition
echo·car·di·og·ra·phy (ek′ō kär′dē äg′rə fē)
noun pl. -·phies
a technique for examining the internal structure of the heart, using reflections from high-frequency sound waves to form a picture or display (echocardiogram)
ech′o·car′·dio·graph′ic (-dē ə graf′ik) adjective
ech′o·car′·di·ol′·ogy (-dē äl′ə jē) noun
echocardiography
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- include: He leads the department with access to all modern invasive and non-invasive imaging including advanced echocardiography.
- use: Using echocardiography we can be much more precise about the actual cause of a murmur in an individual dog.
- call: Heart valve abnormalities are detected with a simple test called echocardiography, a non-invasive test that does not require x-rays.
- have: To achieve better diagnostic standards it is necessary to have open access echocardiography.
- perform: Screening with ECG machine interpretation costs virtually the same as performing echocardiography on all patients.
Adjective modifier
- transoesophageal: This has almost the same degree of sensitivity as transoesophageal echocardiography, the gold standard.
- fetal: The accuracy of fetal echocardiography in the diagnosis of congenital heart disease.
- trans-oesophageal: The vent position is initially checked with the pressure waveform but later confirmed with the trans-oesophageal echocardiography ( TOE ) ( Figure 1 ).
- two-dimensional: The diagnosis is best confirmed with two-dimensional echocardiography or cardiac MRI.
Modifies a noun
- service: Open access echocardiography services in general practice would be cost-effective.
- machine: The new high-tech echocardiography machines help the NHS locally to provide more scans for more patients.
- department: Accreditation requires a logbook of 200 cases and the GPwSI will be linked to an echocardiography department with a named supervisor.
Noun used with modifier
- contrast: The authors report an atypical case where the diagnosis was revealed by contrast echocardiography that demonstrated marked intrapulmonary shunting.
- stress: It should be emphasized that stress echocardiography, which can mimic an ischaemic episode, could potentially increase the risk of SonoVue utilization.
Preposition: in
- patient: Despite this, to our knowledge there has been no previously published evaluation of the use of echocardiography in such patients in the UK.
Preposition: for
- care: PRIMARY CARE Hand-held echocardiography for primary care Han B Xiao Echocardiography is a commonly used diagnostic tool in assessing cardiac disease.
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