(n.) A description of the laws of the human voice, or sounds uttered by the organs of speech.
(n.) A representation of sounds by distinctive characters; commonly, a system of shorthand writing invented by Isaac Pitman, or a modification of his system, much used by reporters.
(n.) The art of constructing, or using, the phonograph.
Example Sentences:
(1) In patients with fairly gross stenosis or occlusion of one ICA and stenosis of the intracranial part of the other ICA, phonography of the orbital area on the side of stenosis recorded high-frequency signals on the spectrogram, in the range from 300 to 1000 Hz.
(2) The author used the method of abdominal phonography to study the motor activity of the gastrointestinal tract after resection of the stomach for carcinoma and also to determine the degree of the effect of different stages of the operation and of its volume upon the motor function in 88 patients.
(3) The sistolic murmurs were classified in proto, meso or telesystolic and a good correlation was found with the phonography (method in 91.0% of cases).
(4) For diagnostic purposes the phonography findings should be evaluated within the complex of clinical, X-ray and laboratory findings, and data provided by other investigations.
(5) Phonography of the abdominal cavity has been applied in 115 patients before and after stomach resection.
(6) A 23-year-old man presented with prolonged postprandial epigastric pain and an epigastric bruit with systolic and diastolic components, the intensity of which decreased with inspiration as demonstrated by abdominal phonography.
(7) The phonography findings showed postoperative depression of gastrointestinal motor function in the most of cases within the first days after operation.
Shorthand
Definition:
(n.) A compendious and rapid method or writing by substituting characters, abbreviations, or symbols, for letters, words, etc.; short writing; stenography. See Illust. under Phonography.
Example Sentences:
(1) Neither is it clear that the Cyber Caliphate has a relationship with Isis, which does not use that English shorthand to refer to itself.
(2) As anyone who has witnessed one of its cake stall scrums knows, the WI has become shorthand for the finest homemade produce: it has a fearsome reputation to protect. "
(3) (His new movie, The Frozen Ground , has a limited cinema release and will be available on demand, which, given the demand for on demand, Cage wishes critics would stop using as shorthand for failure.)
(4) Neoliberalism is often used today as shorthand for any idea that is pro-market and anti-government intervention, but it is actually more specific than this.
(5) Taking the episodic and cyclic plasma gonadotropin fluctuations into consideration a shorthand system classifying the gonadotropin baseline (BI-BIV) and LH responses to 25 mug LRH (R0-R2) has been established and is referred to as Human Pituitary Gonadotropin Index (HPGI).
(6) Staubach later said he had closed his eyes and prayed – and the "Hail Mary" is now NFL shorthand for a last-gasp forward pass with little chance of success.
(7) He has long decried supposed British and American plots to deny the Iranian nation its "rights" – assumed shorthand for a nuclear bomb.
(8) The shorthand name for the new edition, the organisation's fifth revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, is DSM-5.
(9) I’ve started to communicate only in code,” she says, referring to the cryptic three-letter shorthand for a voter’s answers to three crucial questions that provide their profile – will you be voting Labour, did you vote Labour last time, and would you prefer a Labour government.
(10) In the US, the Victoria's Secret catalogue has become so infamous that it is now used as a shorthand for easy-access quasi porn in US sitcoms (Friends was especially fond of referencing it).
(11) The second problem is that the word “troll” has become shorthand for describing any behaviour online that may cause offence.
(12) He and Ryan discuss technical matters in shorthand.
(13) Its truth is secondary to its function as a crude shorthand for the negating of difference and change.
(14) There are signs that we will soon be exhausted by the Anthropocene: glutted by its ubiquity as a cultural shorthand, fatigued by its imprecisions, and enervated by its variant names – the “Anthrobscene”, the “Misanthropocene”, the “Lichenocene” (actually, that last one is mine).
(15) Nevertheless, in 1958 she left school with a favourable report: “Priscilla is suitable for office work.” She duly took a one-year secretarial and shorthand course at Anfield Commercial College, following which she landed a typing job at the offices of a construction company, BICC (British Insulated Callender’s Cables).
(16) For good or ill, the phrase stuck, and it's become an easy shorthand for people to fall back on when times get tough.
(17) If it has seemed sudden, it is because the breathless shorthand describing the crisis has disguised a fact that Iraq has been grinding towards this moment of existential truth for the past two years at least, a path from which none of its key actors has seemed able or willing to divert it.
(18) The government's vocabulary seemed to consciously echo the reunification process, with Merkel heralding an "Energie-Wende" – "die Wende" is the word for change which became shorthand for the fall of communism and reunification.
(19) For shorthand, let's call it a slow-motion apocalypse to distinguish it from an intergalactic attack out of the blue or a suddenly surging Genesis-style flood.
(20) Brexit” is shorthand for British exit from the European Union – a possibility that is looking more realistic by the day.