jarvik artificial heart

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   a kind of artificial heart that has been used with some success

   SynonymsJarvik heart

   Broaderartificial heart

Questions about jarvik artificial heart

What does jarvik artificial heart mean?

jarvik artificial heart means "a kind of artificial heart that has been used with some success".

What is another word for jarvik artificial heart?

Close synonyms include Jarvik heart. 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 jarvik artificial heart a common word?

jarvik 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.