Word: electrocardiographic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there is a comfortable feeling that strong coattails will be available in November, and that the presidency is assured for the next four years. In that state of mind, and with only a series of nervous glances over their shoulders at the farm situation, the Middle East and the electrocardiograph, many Republicans prefer not to stir up the voters. The always divided Democrats are split worse than usual. While the division is most dramatically illustrated by the civil rights issue, it goes deep into the basic political cleavage of left and right. Result: no concerted, positive movement on either side...
...lead was Dr. William Bluford Adamson, wearing brown alligator cowboy boots and carrying a case not much bigger than a portable typewriter. He was followed by his wife, two medical technicians and two nurses. In the newspaper's morgue, Cardiologist Adamson opened his box and unveiled an electrocardiograph...
...ocean rendezvous with some grey whale cows, now calving off the Pacific coast of Lower California. Armed with two electrode-bearing harpoons, Heart Researcher White hoped to spear the cows lightly, chart the pulses of the 50-ft. (maximum) beasts while trailing them in a dory equipped with an electrocardiograph. Asked about his most important patient. Dr. White assured newsmen: "I'll be on call for the President all the while...
...world's most eminent heart specialists. In the pursuit of his notable career he has taken electrocardiograms of circus elephants, and once, in the icy waters off the coast of Alaska, he even recorded the heartbeat of a beluga whale by means of an electrocardiograph wired to a pair of brass-tipped harpoons (TIME, Aug. 25, 1952). Since the whale was small as well as in an understandable state of excitement, Dr. White was not fully satisfied with the result. He still yearns to record the throb of a heart of a tranquil, un-harpooned and bigger whale...
...First Days. After the first few hours, the general location of the infarct (the damaged area resulting from loss of circulation) can be determined by use of the electrocardiograph (see chart). Although the electrocardiograph frequently fails to detect the atherosclerosis (narrowing of the coronary arteries) that precedes a thrombosis, it can accurately trace the healing process as a scar forms in the damaged area of the heart...