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Descriptor English: Phonocardiography
Descriptor Spanish: Fonocardiografía
Descriptor fonocardiografía
Scope note: Registro gráfico de los sonidos del corazón captados como vibraciones y transformados por un micrófono de cristal piezoeléctrico en una salida eléctrica variable según las tensiones ejercidas por las ondas sonoras. La electricidad producida se amplifica en un estetógrafo amplificador y se registra por un dispositivo incorporado a un electrocardiógrafo o por una máquina grabadora multicanal.
Descriptor Portuguese: Fonocardiografia
Descriptor French: Phonocardiographie
Entry term(s): Phonocardiographies
Tree number(s): E01.370.370.380.400.500
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D010701
Scope note: Graphic registration of the heart sounds picked up as vibrations and transformed by a piezoelectric crystal microphone into a varying electrical output according to the stresses imposed by the sound waves. The electrical output is amplified by a stethograph amplifier and recorded by a device incorporated into the electrocardiograph or by a multichannel recording machine.
Annotation: usually NIM
Allowable Qualifiers: AE adverse effects
CL classification
DE drug effects
EC economics
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
MO mortality
MT methods
NU nursing
PX psychology
RE radiation effects
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
VE veterinary
Entry Version: PHONOCARDIOGR
DeCS ID: 11128
Unique ID: D010701
NLM Classification: WG 141.5.P4
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 1997/06/20
Phonocardiography - Preferred
Concept UI M0016627
Scope note Graphic registration of the heart sounds picked up as vibrations and transformed by a piezoelectric crystal microphone into a varying electrical output according to the stresses imposed by the sound waves. The electrical output is amplified by a stethograph amplifier and recorded by a device incorporated into the electrocardiograph or by a multichannel recording machine.
Preferred term Phonocardiography
Entry term(s) Phonocardiographies



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