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Descriptor English: Ballistocardiography
Descriptor Spanish: Balistocardiografía
Descriptor balistocardiografía
Scope note: Técnica de representación gráfica de los movimientos del cuerpo impartidos por fuerzas balísticas (retroceso e impacto) asociadas con la contracción cardíaca y la eyección de sangre y con la desaceleración del flujo sanguíneo a través de los grandes vasos sanguíneos. Estos movimientos, cuantitativamente muy pequeños, son trasladados por un dispositivo captador (transductor) a un potencial eléctrico que es amplificado y registrado adecuadamente en un electrocardiógrafo convencional u otra máquina de registro.
Descriptor Portuguese: Balistocardiografia
Descriptor French: Balistocardiographie
Entry term(s): Ballistocardiographies
Tree number(s): E01.370.370.380.100
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001450
Scope note: Technique of graphic representation of the movements of the body imparted by the ballistic forces (recoil and impact) associated with cardiac contraction and ejection of blood and with the deceleration of blood flow through the large blood vessels. These movements, quantitatively very minute, are translated by a pickup device (transducer) into an electrical potential which is suitably amplified and recorded on a conventional electrocardiograph or other recording machine.
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: BALLISTOCARDIOGR
DeCS ID: 1472
Unique ID: D001450
NLM Classification: WG 141.5.B2
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 1997/06/20
Ballistocardiography - Preferred
Concept UI M0002156
Scope note Technique of graphic representation of the movements of the body imparted by the ballistic forces (recoil and impact) associated with cardiac contraction and ejection of blood and with the deceleration of blood flow through the large blood vessels. These movements, quantitatively very minute, are translated by a pickup device (transducer) into an electrical potential which is suitably amplified and recorded on a conventional electrocardiograph or other recording machine.
Preferred term Ballistocardiography
Entry term(s) Ballistocardiographies



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