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What is the name of the paper of the result of the ECG?
I saw someone (non native English speaker) who called it "tracing", I would like to ensure it and to know if there are alternatives for that.
Best Answer
ECG plots (tracings) are usually drawn on graph paper.
The paper is moved below a pen so the x-axis (paper direction) corresponds to time and spiking can be observed or any irregularities.
Xophone (Anglophone, Francophone, &c.) is used by people who require such things; but these terms are not in ordinary parlance. It appears that even the most anxious Nativists don't use it: a search of U.S.English.org, which bills itself as "the nation's oldest and largest non-partisan citizens' action group dedicated to preserving the unifying role of the English language in the United States" doesn't yield a single hit on Anglophone.
We employ the adjective "English-speaking", and if pushed we'll call ourselves "English speakers"; but the fact is rather taken for granted than proclaimed as a point of pride. No doubt it's a sign of Anglophonic arrogance, but "being a native speaker of" English doesn't seem to need a label, at least to those who might bear it.
The usual term when I was in school was scratch paper—scraps of paper you "scratch out" calculations and notes on, to be discarded after results have been fair-copied into your exam answer or essay.
Laure calls my attention to scrap paper, which appears from this GoogleNGram almost always to have been more popular in BrE, and to have become more popular in AmE since I left high school.
Jim calls my attention to the alternative term work sheet. This works, too; but in my experience it is usually employed when you are supposed to turn in the paper, with your exam, rather than discarding it.
A working paper is usually either a) a report on a "work-in-progress" or b) a "working" version of a paper which is still in development and not yet ready for submission or publication.
The traditional term in textual criticism for an author's manuscript draft, often full of strikethroughs, insertions and corrections, is foul papers, from which a "clean" version or fair copy is made.
Best Answer
ECG plots (tracings) are usually drawn on graph paper.
The paper is moved below a pen so the x-axis (paper direction) corresponds to time and spiking can be observed or any irregularities.
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