kymograph Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun scientific instrument consisting of a rotating drum holding paper on which a stylus traces a continuous record (as of breathing or blood pressure)
    cymograph.

WordNet


Ky"mo*graph noun
Etymology
Gr. wave + -graph.
Definitions
  1. (Physiol.) An instrument for measuring, and recording graphically, the pressure of the blood in any of the blood vessels of a living animal; -- called also kymographion.

Webster 1913