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POLYGRAPH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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)