[f. Gr. κῦμο-, combining form of κῦμα wave + -GRAPH.] An instrument for graphically recording variations of pressure of a fluid, esp. of blood in the vessels of a living animal; a recording manometer. Also called kymographion.
1867. C. A. Harris, Dict. Med. Terminol. (ed. 3), Kymographion, an instrument which shows the relation between the pulse-wave and the undulations produced by respiration.
1872. Lancet, I. 675. Fick’s spring manometer or spring kymograph … are excellent instruments for registering the pulse-motions.
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., II. 934. The kymograph registered a very rapid … fall of the arterial pressure.
Hence Kymographic a., pertaining to or made with a kymograph.
1885. Med. Times, 26 Dec., 888. The new method of writing kymographic curves.
1888. Encycl. Brit., XXIV. 106/2. Mercurial kymographic tracing from carotid of dog.
