Fluke Biomedical MPS450 Operator's Manual page 112

MPS450
Operators Manual
THERMODILUTION
VENOUS
VENTRICLE
VOLT
WAVEFORM
WAVELENGTH
B-4
Table B-1. Glossary (cont.)
Term
The measuring of temperature change, enabled by the injection of a
cold or room-temperature solution (such as saline) into the right
atrium
(1) Of or pertaining to a vein or veins. (2) Returning to the heart through
the great veins.
A small anatomical cavity or chamber, as of the brain or heart,
especially (1) the chamber on the left side of the heart that receives
arterial blood from the left
aorta
, and (2) the chamber on the right side of the heart that receives
venous blood from the right atrium and drives it into the pulmonary
artery
.
The International System unit of electric potential and electromotive
force, equal to the difference of electric potential between two points on
a conducting wire carrying a constant current of one
the power dissipated between the points is one watt.
(1) The mathematical representation of a wave, especially a graph of
deviation at a fixed point (baseline) versus time. (2) On an ECG tracing
or output, the size, shape, and distance (in milliseconds) of a P-QRS-T
complex.
In a periodic wave, the distance between two points of corresponding
phase in consecutive cycles.
Definition
Swan-Ganz
by means of a
atrium
procedure.
and contracts to drive it into the
ampere
when