cardiac pacemaker

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   a specialized bit of heart tissue that controls the heartbeat

   Synonymspacemakersinoatrial nodeSA node

   Broadercardiac muscle

Questions about cardiac pacemaker

What does cardiac pacemaker mean?

cardiac pacemaker means "a specialized bit of heart tissue that controls the heartbeat".

What is another word for cardiac pacemaker?

Close synonyms include pacemaker, sinoatrial node, SA node. 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 cardiac pacemaker a common word?

cardiac 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.