babygramme

From baby +‎ -gramme.

babygramme (plural babygrammes)

1. Alternative spelling of babygram.
   • 1985 third quarter, Mike Taylor, “Gordon Keeble: A Sporting Chance”, in L. Scott Bailey, editor, Automobile Quarterly: The Connoisseur’s Magazine of Motoring Today, Yesterday and Tomorrow, volume XXIII, number 3, Kutztown, Pa.: Automobile Quarterly, Inc. in association with the Princeton Institute for Historic Research, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 264:

     A touch of humor was added to the whole affair when Sir David Brown of Aston Martin sent a “Babygramme.” “Congratulations,” it said, “It’s a motorcar.”

   • 1986, Helvetica paediatrica acta: Supplement, volume 41, Basel: Schwabe, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 43–45:

     Fig. 3. X-ray babygramme of xipho-omphalopagus twins. […] The X-ray babygramme showed evidence of a small xiphoidal, but no further osseous attachment (Fig. 3). […] Fig. 6. X-ray babygramme after barium enema showing no signs of lower intestinal tract communications.

   • 2006 October, I.E. Martinek, Y. Vial, P. Hohlfeld, “Management of in utero foetal death: which assessment to undertake?”, in Journal de gynécologie, obstétrique et biologie de la reproduction, volume 35, number 6 (overall work in French), Paris: Elsevier Masson, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, Results:

     The exams that yielded the most information when done were: foetal autopsy which was abnormal in 92.7%, placental investigation which was abnormal in 93% and the babygramme (X-ray of the foetal skeleton) which was abnormal in 53%.