pacemaker
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- noun
- /ˈpeɪsˌmeɪkər/
- Specialized
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- The pacemaker implanted in her chest helps to keep her heart beating normally by sending electrical signals.
- pacemaker implant
- implantable cardiac pacemaker
- temporary pacemaker
So you can drain a multi year battery of a pacemaker into a couple days or weeks.
- So you can drain a multi year battery of a pacemaker into a couple days or weeks.
- Tell me Jerry now is on a pacemaker.
- It turns out that she had the pacemaker installed wrong and it was electrocuting her.
- I remember resuscitating a patient, putting a pacemaker, putting him on a respirator and then going outside to smoke a cigarette.
Examples
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Last month we put in a pacemaker, and since then, she's been in and out of Mount St. Mary's.
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He, he had a bad heart and he got a pacemaker put in like a year before that.
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We can keep track of her pacemaker from just about anywhere.
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Her doctors want to monitor her pacemaker a little longer.
Fiction book (2000) -
I've gotta go have my pacemaker checked.
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With the model, doctors can predict how blood flow would change if a pacemaker or artificial valve were placed in the heart.
Academic text (2004) -
Excessive slowing of the heart often requires the implantation of an electronic pacemaker under the skin.
Academic text (1998) -
A subsequent diagnosis of sick sinus syndrome was made, and she was fitted with a pacemaker.
Academic text (2015) -
Her attendances at the surgery dropped dramatically, and she has not fainted since the pacemaker was fitted.
Academic text (2015) -
The simulations would help researchers improve pacemakers and artificial heart valves.
Academic text (2004)
Synonyms
A small electronic device placed under the skin that keeps the heart beating steadily
Compounds
- Specialized
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4.4
A small part of the heart that makes electrical signals to control the heartbeat
- Specialized
A small electronic device placed under the skin that keeps the heart beating steadily
How Effective
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Pacemaker comes from pace ('speed') and maker ('one who makes'), and the small implanted device is named after the heart's natural pacemaker because the device 'makes the pace' when the heart cannot.