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Pacemaker meaning
Specialized cells which stimulate the heart to beat. | A medical implement that is used to stimulate a heart to beat by simulating the action of the natural pacemaker. | One who sets the pace in a race, to guide the others.
Example sentences (20)
Bakken developed the first external battery-powered, transistorized heart pacemaker and commercialized the first implantable pacemaker in 1960.
I discovered I had an evil heart and now have a pacemaker.
I have a pacemaker that keeps my heart beating.
Pell experienced heart problems in January 2010 while touring the Vatican, and a pacemaker was inserted into his chest in a Rome hospital in February.
Picture: Colm Lenaghan/ Pacemaker (archive image).
Romano founded Pacemaker Steel on April 1, 1956, at the age of 28. He would grow the business into a multi-million dollar operation, that according to the book, F. Eugene Romano - Doing It His Way, was his pride and joy.
She'd been updating fans, friends and family there since earlier this year when — per — he had a heart scare that required a pacemaker.
The Hollywood blockbuster star has had a pacemaker fitted and said he’s ‘being held together by string’.
Doctors had to put the tiny device into her stomach instead of her collarbone after she weighed in at just 5lb 2oz, and she is one of the youngest and smallest babies to be fitted with a pacemaker.
He says he has a clean bill of health, but we know that he has a pacemaker because of a heart condition," Mr Sieh said.
He would have coped well in the technological age, if only they had perfected the pacemaker a couple of years earlier.
Later in life, he received a pacemaker to keep that heart of his beating.
My doctor implanted a spinal cord stimulator, a pacemaker-type device that was embedded in my lower right hip.
Picture: Pacemaker (stock image).
To treat the heart block, a small device called a pacemaker can be fitted in your chest.
Collett was impressed with the last 100m where Lashes put away her rivals to score by two lengths from the pacemaker Echo Gem ($7), with Switched ($3.70) third.
Cordero had his leg amputated as a result of blood clots and has had a temporary pacemaker inserted.
He’s also the recipient of a device — similar to a pacemaker — designed to regulate electrical impulses and stop seizures before they happen.
Mo Farah in his red pacemaker’s jersey.
On July 4, 2019, Mea underwent an operation for a diaphragm pacemaker to help her breathe more independently off of the ventilator, she added.