Jarvik heart
- noun
- /ˈdʒɑrvɪk hɑrt/
- Specialized
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corazón Jarvik
- Patients with a Jarvik heart require careful medical monitoring after the operation.
Examples
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The Jarvik heart was first implanted in a patient in 1982, revolutionizing cardiac surgery.
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Research continues to improve the long-term performance of the Jarvik heart and other artificial hearts.
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The Jarvik heart has been a significant advancement in cardiac surgery.
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Many patients have received a Jarvik heart to prolong their lives.
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The patient received a Jarvik heart to replace his failing heart and improve his quality of life.
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Doctors reported that the Jarvik heart was effective in sustaining patients until a suitable donor heart was found.
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Many patients who received a Jarvik heart expressed gratitude for the additional time it gave them with their families.
Synonyms
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A machine placed inside the body that does the work of a human heart
A machine that replaces a person's heart for a short time until they can get a new heart
Surface Forms
Morphology
Jarvik + heart
The element 'heart' clearly signals the semantic domain (a type of heart), but 'Jarvik' is a proper name with no lexical meaning for a B1 learner, so they could infer it's a specific kind of heart associated with a person but would not reliably infer that it is an artificial/prosthetic device. Because part of the meaning (that it is a named artificial heart) is not recoverable from the constituents, the MWE is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Jarvik heart is named after Dr Robert Jarvik, the doctor who invented one of the first artificial hearts. Because his device was made to take the place of a real heart, people used his name for the machine, so Jarvik heart today means 'a type of artificial heart'.