grapho-, graph-, -graph, -graphy, -grapher, -graphia +

1. Recording of the heart sounds with a phonocardiograph.
2. The science of interpreting phonocardiograms.

The use of synchronous cardiac sounds and cinefluorography (motion-picture recording of fluroscopic images) to study heart form, motion, and function.

An instrument for registering simultaneously the sounds and the electrical changes caused by the heart, or one of these together with the pulse.

An instrument, invented by Thomas A. Edison in 1877 (patented 30 July), by which sounds are automatically recorded and reproduced. In Britain the word is retained only for early cylinder machines; but in North Amerrica, it has become synonymous with a "record player", a "record deck", a "record", etc., corresponding to the British gramophone.

1. A reference to any system of phonetic shorthand, as that of Pitman.
2. Phonetic spelling, writing, or shorthand.
3. Representing, or consisting of characters representing, spoken sounds; phonetic.
4. Of, pertaining to, or produced by a phonograph.

One who writes with shorthand.

1. The art or practice of writing according to sound, or so as to represent the actual pronunciation; phonetic spelling.
2. The system of phonetic shorthand invented by Isaac Pitman in 1837: so named by him in 1840; Pitman’s shorthand.
3. The automatic recording of sounds, as by the phonautograph, or the recording and reproduction of them by the phonograph; the construction and use of phonographs.
4. The scientific description of sound, or of the voice; phonology.

The recording of the varying sounds made by contracting muscular tissue; usually supplementing visual oscillographic displays.

1. Photographic recording of the vibratory characteristics of speech sounds.
2. The recording on a moving photographic plate of the movements imparted to a diaphragm by sound waves.

An instrument for amplifying and recording heart sounds.

Description of books with the aid of photography.

A person’s life shown in a series of photographs.

1. An instrument for taking a series of instantaneous photographs at regular short intervals of time; also, each of the photographs so taken.
2. An instrument by which a beam of light is caused to produce a photographic image at some precise instant of time; for example, so as to show the exact time at which a star crosses the meridian.

The art of recording or measuring intervals of time with the photochronograph.

1. The art or process of engraving by means of the action of light and certain chemical processes.
2. The production of photoglyphic plates and photoglyphs or photogravures.