artificial heart

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   a pump that replaces the natural heart

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Questions about artificial heart

What does artificial heart mean?

artificial heart means "a pump that replaces the natural heart".

Is artificial heart a common word?

artificial heart is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.