Pacemaker
noun
A small device put inside the body to control the heart beat.
After suffering two heart attacks, Joe had a pacemaker fitted.
Often appears as...
- have a pacemaker fitted
- need a pacemaker
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Technical
noun
Someone who sets the pace in a race by running fast at the beginning.
In the marathon, they used a pacemaker to get the race off to a quick start.
Often appears as...
- use a pacemaker
- need a pacemaker
noun
A small device put inside the body to control the heart beat.
After suffering two heart attacks, Joe had a pacemaker fitted.
Often appears as...
- have a pacemaker fitted
- need a pacemaker
Usage tips
Technical
noun
Someone who sets the pace in a race by running fast at the beginning.
In the marathon, they used a pacemaker to get the race off to a quick start.
Often appears as...
- use a pacemaker
- need a pacemaker
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Health Device
A pacemaker is critical for patients with heart rhythm problems, not just any heart issue.
My grandmother was steady on her feet once her pacemaker regulated her heartbeat.
Pro Tip 2/3Surgical Implant
A pacemaker is surgically implanted; it's not a device you carry outside your body.
The doctor explained the pacemaker's implantation procedure to Paul.
Pro Tip 3/3Heartbeat Control
Pacemakers help maintain a normal heart rate and are not used for temporary regulation.
Since her heart rate was irregular, Maria needed a pacemaker to maintain a steady pace.
Pro Tip 1/3Health Device
A pacemaker is critical for patients with heart rhythm problems, not just any heart issue.
My grandmother was steady on her feet once her pacemaker regulated her heartbeat.
Pro Tip 2/3Surgical Implant
A pacemaker is surgically implanted; it's not a device you carry outside your body.
The doctor explained the pacemaker's implantation procedure to Paul.
Pro Tip 3/3Heartbeat Control
Pacemakers help maintain a normal heart rate and are not used for temporary regulation.
Since her heart rate was irregular, Maria needed a pacemaker to maintain a steady pace.
Pro Tip 1/3Health Device
A pacemaker is critical for patients with heart rhythm problems, not just any heart issue.
My grandmother was steady on her feet once her pacemaker regulated her heartbeat.
Pro Tip 2/3Surgical Implant
A pacemaker is surgically implanted; it's not a device you carry outside your body.
The doctor explained the pacemaker's implantation procedure to Paul.
Pro Tip 3/3Heartbeat Control
Pacemakers help maintain a normal heart rate and are not used for temporary regulation.
Since her heart rate was irregular, Maria needed a pacemaker to maintain a steady pace.
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Andres Lozano:...
to see if we can help our patients. And this is accomplished using this kind of device, and this is called deep brain stimulation. So what we're doing is placing these electrodes throughout the brain. Again, we are making holes in the skull about the size of a dime, putting an electrode in, and then this electrode is completely underneath the skin down to a pacemaker in the chest,
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Avi Rubin: All your...
None of the work is my work. It's all work that my colleagues have done, and I actually asked them for their slides and incorporated them into this talk. So the first one I'm going to talk about are implanted medical devices. Now medical devices have come a long way technologically. You can see in 1926 the first pacemaker was invented.
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Parkinson's, depression...
accomplished using this kind of device and this is called deep brain stimulation so what we're doing is placing these electrodes throughout the brain these are again we are making holes in the skull about the size of a dime putting an electrode in and then this electrode is completely underneath the skin down to a pacemaker in the
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What does your time feel...
one year is twenty percent of your life but when you're 50 years old one year is only two percent of your life we may be constantly comparing intervals with time with the duration that we've already lived third with aging they come the slowing of some sort of pacemaker in ourselves relative to the unstoppable
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Nadya Bartol: Better...
kept his pacemaker disconnected from Wi-Fi before he received a heart transplant? I will let you figure out why. In a digitally interconnected world, cyber risks are literally everywhere. For years, my colleagues and I have been talking about this elusive notion of cybersecurity culture.
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What will humans look...
So these external prosthetics have now become artificial knees. They've become artificial hips. And then they've evolved further to become not just nice to have but essential to have. So when you're talking about a heart pacemaker as a prosthetic,
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Steven Strogatz: How...
to see this kind of spontaneous order, and I've already hinted that the answer is no. Well, you don't have to be a whole creature. You can even be just a single cell. Like, take, for instance, your pacemaker cells in your heart right now.
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Science Fiction Inspires...
wearable battery-powered cardiac pacemaker a device that uses electric pulses to correct abnormal heartbeats if this sci-fi monster can lead to a life-saving medical device what else is sci-fi inspired here's how another
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Could a tattoo help you...
is that our skin doesn't conduct electricity, and that can be a good thing, but not necessarily -- if you have an electronic biomedical implant, like a pacemaker for example. Right now, if you have a pacemaker,
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This Monster Helped Save...
half million people on this planet alive let's find out how the science fiction inspired science reality so what's the connection between this monster and a pacemaker to explain that we have to go
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Andres Lozano:...
to see if we can help our patients. And this is accomplished using this kind of device, and this is called deep brain stimulation. So what we're doing is placing these electrodes throughout the brain. Again, we are making holes in the skull about the size of a dime, putting an electrode in, and then this electrode is completely underneath the skin down to a pacemaker in the chest,
Video examples
Avi Rubin: All your...
None of the work is my work. It's all work that my colleagues have done, and I actually asked them for their slides and incorporated them into this talk. So the first one I'm going to talk about are implanted medical devices. Now medical devices have come a long way technologically. You can see in 1926 the first pacemaker was invented.
Video examples
Parkinson's, depression...
accomplished using this kind of device and this is called deep brain stimulation so what we're doing is placing these electrodes throughout the brain these are again we are making holes in the skull about the size of a dime putting an electrode in and then this electrode is completely underneath the skin down to a pacemaker in the
Video examples
What does your time feel...
one year is twenty percent of your life but when you're 50 years old one year is only two percent of your life we may be constantly comparing intervals with time with the duration that we've already lived third with aging they come the slowing of some sort of pacemaker in ourselves relative to the unstoppable
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Nadya Bartol: Better...
kept his pacemaker disconnected from Wi-Fi before he received a heart transplant? I will let you figure out why. In a digitally interconnected world, cyber risks are literally everywhere. For years, my colleagues and I have been talking about this elusive notion of cybersecurity culture.
Video examples
What will humans look...
So these external prosthetics have now become artificial knees. They've become artificial hips. And then they've evolved further to become not just nice to have but essential to have. So when you're talking about a heart pacemaker as a prosthetic,
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Steven Strogatz: How...
to see this kind of spontaneous order, and I've already hinted that the answer is no. Well, you don't have to be a whole creature. You can even be just a single cell. Like, take, for instance, your pacemaker cells in your heart right now.
Video examples
Science Fiction Inspires...
wearable battery-powered cardiac pacemaker a device that uses electric pulses to correct abnormal heartbeats if this sci-fi monster can lead to a life-saving medical device what else is sci-fi inspired here's how another
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Could a tattoo help you...
is that our skin doesn't conduct electricity, and that can be a good thing, but not necessarily -- if you have an electronic biomedical implant, like a pacemaker for example. Right now, if you have a pacemaker,
Video examples
This Monster Helped Save...
half million people on this planet alive let's find out how the science fiction inspired science reality so what's the connection between this monster and a pacemaker to explain that we have to go
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David Rudisha
Kenyan Athlete
Already in 2007 I thought I would be able to break the World record in the near future. That time Sammy Tangui was the pacemaker in Lausanne. I liked the way he was running. He is tall, he has a strong body and his stride is similar to mine. I told him in one of the coming years I would need him when I try to break the World record.
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Jerry Lewis
American Comedian
This is the pain pacemaker. I've got a battery under my skin. From that battery are two electrodes that go into the spine where they cut bone away to accommodate it. Now I put on the power here. If I have the pain, the stimulator starts. It's tingling, like when your foot falls asleep, you know?
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Aimee Mullins
American Athlete
At some point in every person's life, you will need an assisted medical device - whether it's your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.
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Caitlin Doughty
American Activist
If people really knew what they were getting into with their third chemotherapy treatment, or getting a pacemaker when they're 92, if they really knew what that was going to mean, they might say no, and we should give them that information.
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Mike Wallace
American Journalist
I had my hearing aid fixed today so that I could properly hear you. I can't see as well. I now have - this has stopped me from smoking - a pacemaker, have for about the last 15 years. No, I don't like getting old.
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Jim Nabors
American Actor
I had a liver transplant, then I had a pacemaker put in, then I had a new knee put it, then I had a heart valve put in. I'm almost brand new. I have a lot of new parts.
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Walter Matthau
American Actor
I still think I'm 28. I'm 73. I think I'm 28, though, except that I won't get into a fight with anybody because I just had a pacemaker put in.
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Richard Dooling
American Novelist
Under Medicare right now, I get paid to put a pacemaker in you, but I don't get paid to counsel you about end-of-life care.
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Minnie Pearl
American Musician
The doctor must have put my pacemaker in wrong. Every time my husband kisses me, the garage door goes up.
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Kirk Douglas
American Actor
Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all.
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David Rudisha
Kenyan Athlete
Already in 2007 I thought I would be able to break the World record in the near future. That time Sammy Tangui was the pacemaker in Lausanne. I liked the way he was running. He is tall, he has a strong body and his stride is similar to mine. I told him in one of the coming years I would need him when I try to break the World record.
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Jerry Lewis
American Comedian
This is the pain pacemaker. I've got a battery under my skin. From that battery are two electrodes that go into the spine where they cut bone away to accommodate it. Now I put on the power here. If I have the pain, the stimulator starts. It's tingling, like when your foot falls asleep, you know?
Quote examples
Aimee Mullins
American Athlete
At some point in every person's life, you will need an assisted medical device - whether it's your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.
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Caitlin Doughty
American Activist
If people really knew what they were getting into with their third chemotherapy treatment, or getting a pacemaker when they're 92, if they really knew what that was going to mean, they might say no, and we should give them that information.
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Mike Wallace
American Journalist
I had my hearing aid fixed today so that I could properly hear you. I can't see as well. I now have - this has stopped me from smoking - a pacemaker, have for about the last 15 years. No, I don't like getting old.
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Jim Nabors
American Actor
I had a liver transplant, then I had a pacemaker put in, then I had a new knee put it, then I had a heart valve put in. I'm almost brand new. I have a lot of new parts.
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Walter Matthau
American Actor
I still think I'm 28. I'm 73. I think I'm 28, though, except that I won't get into a fight with anybody because I just had a pacemaker put in.
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Richard Dooling
American Novelist
Under Medicare right now, I get paid to put a pacemaker in you, but I don't get paid to counsel you about end-of-life care.
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Minnie Pearl
American Musician
The doctor must have put my pacemaker in wrong. Every time my husband kisses me, the garage door goes up.
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Kirk Douglas
American Actor
Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all.
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