Cardiac Pacemaker

Definition: Cardiac Pacemaker

Cardiac Pacemaker

Noun

1. A specialized bit of heart tissue that controls the heartbeat.

Synonyms: Cardiac Pacemaker

Synonyms: pacemaker (n), sinoatrial node (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Cardiac Pacemaker

English words defined with "cardiac pacemaker": artificial pacemaker ♦ pacemaker. (references)

Specialty definitions using "cardiac pacemaker": automaticity ♦ modulating pacemaker ♦ Parasystole, physiologic pacing ♦ rate-adaptive, rate-modulated, rate-modulating, rate-responsive, responsive pacemaker ♦ sensor-driven, sinus node. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Machines in Our Hearts: The Cardiac Pacemaker, the Implantable Defibrillator, and American Health Care (reference) The Cardiac Pacemaker, Function and Malfunction (Clinical Cardiology Monographs) (reference) (more book examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		If these symptoms persist or are severe enough, patients may also be treated with corticosteroids or given a temporary internal cardiac pacemaker. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "cardiac pacemaker"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		indoperering af en pace-maker (implantation of an artificial cardiac pacemaker). (various references)

Dutch		implantatie van een pace-maker (implantation of an artificial cardiac pacemaker). (various references)

French		implantation d'un pace-maker (implantation of an artificial cardiac pacemaker). (various references)

German		Implantation eines Schrittmachers (implantation of an artificial cardiac pacemaker), Herzschrittmacher (Artificial Cardiac Pacemaker, pacemaker, pace-maker), ACP (Artificial Cardiac Pacemaker). (various references)

Greek		εμφύτευση βηματοδότη (implantation of an artificial cardiac pacemaker). (various references)

Italian		nodo senoatriale (and through the branches of the bundle of His, area of the cardiac tissue located at the junction of the superior vena cava with the right atrium.It is the normal cardiac pacemaker, its rate of discharge determining the rate at which the heart beats.Impulses generated in the SA node pass through the atrial pathways to the AV node, node of Keith and Flack, SA node, sinoatrial node, sinus node, through this node to the bundle of His, to the ventricular muscle [VE1], via the Purkinje system), nodo SA (and through the branches of the bundle of His, area of the cardiac tissue located at the junction of the superior vena cava with the right atrium.It is the normal cardiac pacemaker, its rate of discharge determining the rate at which the heart beats.Impulses generated in the SA node pass through the atrial pathways to the AV node, SA node, sinoatrial node, sinus node, through this node to the bundle of His, to the ventricular muscle [VE1], via the Purkinje system), nodo di Keith-Flack (and through the branches of the bundle of His, area of the cardiac tissue located at the junction of the superior vena cava with the right atrium.It is the normal cardiac pacemaker, its rate of discharge determining the rate at which the heart beats.Impulses generated in the SA node pass through the atrial pathways to the AV node, node of Keith and Flack, SA node, sinoatrial node, sinus node, through this node to the bundle of His, to the ventricular muscle [VE1], via the Purkinje system), nodo del seno (and through the branches of the bundle of His, area of the cardiac tissue located at the junction of the superior vena cava with the right atrium.It is the normal cardiac pacemaker, its rate of discharge determining the rate at which the heart beats.Impulses generated in the SA node pass through the atrial pathways to the AV node, SA node, sinoatrial node, sinus node, through this node to the bundle of His, to the ventricular muscle [VE1], via the Purkinje system), insediamento di un pace-maker (implantation of an artificial cardiac pacemaker). (various references)

Pig Latin		ardiaccay acemakerpay

Portuguese		implantação de um pace-maker (implantation of an artificial cardiac pacemaker). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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