artificial pacemaker

1. 1.

   an implanted electronic device that takes over the function of the natural cardiac pacemaker

   Synonymspacemaker

   Broaderelectronic device

Questions about artificial pacemaker

What does artificial pacemaker mean?

artificial pacemaker means "an implanted electronic device that takes over the function of the natural cardiac pacemaker".

What is another word for artificial pacemaker?

Close synonyms include pacemaker. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is artificial pacemaker a common word?

artificial pacemaker 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.