defibrillator
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- noun
- /dɪˈfɪbrɪˌleɪtər/
- Specialized
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desfibrilador
- Likewise, miniature computerized devices, such as defibrillators and insulin pumps, are safe and reliable for home use.
- automatic defibrillator
- external defibrillator
- implantable defibrillator
It's, it's, it's like the the hard way up has a defibrillator at the top just in case.
- It's, it's, it's like the the hard way up has a defibrillator at the top just in case.
- And I said to Farnsworth Elliot, what is a defibrillator?
- He became the San Jose Fire Department liaison and program director for automatic external defibrillators.
- And meditation helps you just sit with whatever is happening and you'll see like you don't need a defibrillator, you're OK.
- We had folks on with golf carts with, you know, and they all had jump bags, which had, you know, dressings, tourniquets, but, you know, defibrillators and oxygen.
- But going back to the kid with a defibrillator and he says I won't realize this is my dad's nose or my mom's mouth or vice versa.
Examples
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Smith wants all schools to install defibrillators and to teach life saving skills.
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A cardioscope was attached, and a defibrillator was kept ready if required.
Academic text (2007) -
This is a defibrillator from a former patient.
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Or we could just send him home with a defibrillator.
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I asked for a defibrillator.
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Remove the defibrillator from the pouch.
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The paramedics began scrambling to load the defibrillator pads on Stephen's chest.
Fiction book (1991) -
Exhibits feature the electric ray and such life-saving and life-preserving machines as a pacemaker, a defibrillator, and an electrocardiograph.
Academic text (1995) -
In patients with heart failure treated with implanted defibrillators, automatic telemonitoring reduced a composite of cardiac events and mortality.
Academic text (2014) -
The paramedic used the defibrillator to revive the patient during his cardiac arrest.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
defibrillator = defibrillate (opaque) = de + fibrill + ator
The derivation from the verb 'defibrillate' to the agent noun 'defibrillator' via the suffix '-ator' is a regular and predictable noun formation.
Etymology
Defibrillator comes from de- meaning 'remove' or 'reverse' and fibrillate, which is related to fiber and means 'tiny, fast muscle movements' in the heart. So a defibrillator is a machine that removes those wrong, tiny movements and helps the heart start a normal beat again.