an electronic device for use in certain cases of heart disease to assume the functions of the natural cardiac pacemaker
another name for pacemaker (sense 4)
Examples of 'artificial pacemaker' in a sentence
artificial pacemaker
The patient underwent a double-chamber definitive artificial pacemaker implant.
Gildo Mota, Juliana Prazeres, Nelmacy Freitas, Luiz Magalhães, Francisco Reis, RoqueAras 2010, 'Posicionamento ectópico de eletrodo de marcapasso Posicionamiento ectópico de electrodode marcapaso Ectopic positioning of pacemaker electrode', Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologiahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0066-782X2010000500023. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)