Definition: Graphic registration of the heart sounds picked up as vibrations and transformed by a piezoelectric crystal microphone into a varying electrical output according to the stresses imposed by the sound waves. The electrical output is amplified by a stethograph amplifier and recorded by a device incorporated into the electrocardiograph or by a multichannel recording machine.
NIM; consider also HEART AUSCULTATION; /drug eff /rad eff permitted; do not use /util except by MeSH definition; DF: PHONOCARDIOGR
