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echocardiography
(redirected from Transesophageal echocardiogram)

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ech·o·car·di·o·graph  (k-kärd--grf)
n.
An instrument that in a painless and noninvasive manner employs the differential transmission and reflection of ultrasonic waves to image structural and functional abnormalities of the heart.
echo·cardi·o·graphic adj.
echo·cardi·ogra·phy (-gr-f) n.
echocardiography [ˌɛkəʊkɑːdɪˈɒgrəfɪ]
n
(Medicine) examination of the heart using ultrasound techniques
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Noun1.echocardiography - a noninvasive diagnostic procedure that uses ultrasound to study to structure and motions of the heart
diagnostic procedure, diagnostic technique - a procedure followed in making a medical diagnosis
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