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echocardiography

n. the production of a graphic record or image (echocardiogram) of the internal structures and beating of an individual’s heart with an ultrasound device that uses sonarlike reflections. Echocardiography enables the visualization and measurement of all the chambers and valves of the heart as well as the pumping efficiency of the organ.

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March 11th 2025

transfer

transfer

1. vb. to shift or change from one location to another, one form to another, or one situation or condition to another.

2. n. the shift or change thus produced, as in transfer of training.

3. n. in Gestalt psychology, the use of the solution to one problem in solving a second problem that has elements in common with the first.