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kymograph


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Kymograph  \Ky"mo*graph\,  n.  [Gr.  ?  wave  +  -graph.]  (Physiol.) 
  An  instrument  for  measuring,  and  recording  graphically,  the 
  pressure  of  the  blood  in  any  of  the  blood  vessels  of  a  living 
  animal;  --  called  also  {kymographion}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  kymograph 
  n  :  a  rotating  drum  holding  paper  on  which  a  stylus  traces  a 
  continuous  record  (as  of  breathing  or  blood  pressure) 
  [syn:  {cymograph}] 




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