jarvik heart

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

   SynonymsJarvik artificial heart

   Broaderartificial heart

Questions about jarvik heart

What does jarvik heart mean?

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

What is another word for jarvik heart?

Close synonyms include Jarvik artificial 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 heart a common word?

jarvik 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.