echocardiography
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Pluralechocardiographies
- 1A heart test that uses sound waves to make moving pictures of the heart.
It works a bit like how a bat uses sound to find things in the dark.
The doctor used echocardiography to check how well her heart was pumping.
Echocardiography showed that his heart valves were working normally.
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Origin
It comes from "echo" plus "cardiography."