pacemaker

English

Alternative forms

  • (medicine): peacemaker (misconstruction, non-native speakers’ English)

Etymology

pace + maker

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpeɪsˌmeɪkəɹ/
  • (file)

Noun

pacemaker (plural pacemakers)

  1. One who sets the pace in a race, to guide the others.
  2. (anatomy) A set of nerves which stimulate the heart to beat.
  3. (by extension, medicine) A medical implement that is used to stimulate a heart to beat by simulating the action of the natural pacemaker.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
  • Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Translations

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See also

French

Noun

pacemaker m (plural pacemakers)

  1. Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) (device)

Further reading

Romanian

Etymology

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

Noun

pacemaker n (plural pacemakere)

  1. Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), used since 1891.

Noun

pacemaker c

  1. (sports) a pacemaker, one who sets the pace
  2. (medicine) a pacemaker, an implant that stimulates the heart to beat

Declension

Declension of Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) pacemakern pacemakrar pacemakrarna
Genitive pacemakers pacemakerns pacemakrars pacemakrarnas
  • pacemakerbärare

References

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