NOUN
- a medical instrument that measures the mechanical force of cardiac contractions and the amount of blood passing through the heart during a specified period by measuring the recoil of the body as blood is pumped from the ventricles
How To Use ballistocardiograph In A Sentence
- A ballistocardiograph chair, designed to look like a normal office chair, was built and fitted with pressure sensitive EMFi-films.
- These can be used to produce a ballistocardiograph by suitable differentiation and/or integration.
- The heart measurement of a chicken embryo takes place by means of a ballistocardiograph as regards technology.
- A ballistocardiograph is a device, including a supporting structure on which the patient is placed, that moves in response to blood ejection from the heart.
- This is caused by the compliance between subject and ballistocardiograph as well as by that between the latter and the surroundings.