POLYGRAPH

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A medical instrument that records several physiological processes simultaneously (e.g., pulse rate and blood pressure and respiration and perspiration)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("polygraph" is a kind of...):

medical instrument (instrument used in the practice of medicine)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "polygraph"):

lie detector (a polygraph that records bodily changes sometimes associated with lying)

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