n :  a device for measuring the amount of blood passing through the heart in a specified time by recording the recoil movements of the body that result from contraction of the heart muscle in ejecting blood from the ventricles bal*lis*to*car*dio*graph*ic adj bal*lis*to*car*di*og*ra*phy n pl  -phies  
 
 
 
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