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-gram, -gramme: record or picture Greek γράμμα (grámma), picture, letter, writing angiogram, gramophone -graph: instrument used to record data or picture Greek -γραφία (-graphía), written, drawn, graphic interpretation electrocardiograph, seismograph-graphy: process of recording
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Medical terminology is a language used to precisely describe the human body including all its components, processes, conditions affecting it, and procedures performed upon it. Medical terminology is used in the field of medicine .
Recording of the Electrogastrogram can be made from either the gastrointestinal surface mucosa, serosa, or the external skin surface.The cutaneous electrogastrography provides an indirect representation of the electrical activity, that has been demonstrated in numerous studies to exactly correspond to simultaneous recordings of the mucosa or serosa.
The English suffix-graphy means a "field of study" or related to "writing" a book, and is an anglicization of the French -graphie inherited from the Latin -graphia, which is a transliterated direct borrowing from Greek.
Pronunciation follows convention outside the medical field, in which acronyms are generally pronounced as if they were a word (JAMA, SIDS), initialisms are generally pronounced as individual letters (DNA, SSRI), and abbreviations generally use the expansion (soln. = "solution", sup. = "superior").
Graph; gram Write; draw; record Telegraph: the long-distance transmission of written messages without physical transport of letters [see tele] Gyn Woman: Misogyny: The hatred of women [see miso] Helio: Sun: Heliotherapy: therapeutic exposure to sunlight [see therap] Hem; haem Blood: Hemorrhage: a profuse discharge of blood Hemi: Half