artificial heart
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- noun
- /ˌɑːrtɪˈfɪʃəl hɑrt/
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corazón artificial
- Nina Tandon, Tissue Engineer, is a TED Fellow who studies ways to use electrical signals to grow artificial hearts and bones.
- implant artificial heart
- total artificial heart
- first artificial heart
He was a biophysicist who helped design some of the first artificial hearts and lungs.
- He was a biophysicist who helped design some of the first artificial hearts and lungs.
- Doctor Taylor and her lab have pioneered the field of total bio artificial heart design.
- They could either put me on a ventricle pump, which would cycle my blood kind of artificial heart for me.
Examples
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Its developers spent nearly 30 years working on the artificial heart before Barney Clark received the Jarvik 7 in 1982.
Academic text (2012) -
The batteries and spares were power for his artificial heart, and removing them would kill him.
Blog text (28) -
"People get artificial hearts when they need them.
Fiction book (2002) -
"An artificial heart is being implanted."
Fiction book (1995) -
Actually, I think the medical devices they are really after are stents, artificial hearts, and the sort.
Blog text (34) -
The doctors in the artificial heart program bragged that their device held up well under the stress.
Blog text (28) -
He was a biophysicist who helped design some of the first artificial hearts and lungs.
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The surgeon implanted an artificial heart in the patient to replace his failing organ.
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After the transplant, the artificial heart began functioning as intended, allowing her to resume normal activities.
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Researchers are developing a new type of artificial heart that could last longer and integrate better with the human body.
Synonyms
A machine that replaces a human heart to pump blood
A machine that replaces a person's heart for a short time until they can get a new heart
How Life-Sustaining
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a mechanical device that replaces the function of a natural heart' is directly and compositionally derived from 'artificial' (man-made, imitation) + 'heart' (the blood-pumping organ). This adjective+noun pattern is transparent and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Artificial heart is a simple literal name: artificial means made by people and heart is the organ that pumps blood, so you can picture a 'man-made heart'. That's why the phrase means 'a mechanical device that replaces a natural human heart'.