Pacemaker

  • 51pacemaker — noun (C) a small machine that is fixed inside someone s chest in order to make weak or irregular beats of the heart regular …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 52pacemaker — [ˈpeɪsˌmeɪkə] noun [C] a small piece of electronic equipment that is put in someone s heart in order to help the muscles to move regularly …

    Dictionary for writing and speaking English

  • 53pacemaker — pace•mak•er [[t]ˈpeɪsˌmeɪ kər[/t]] n. 1) pacesetter 2) med an electronic device surgically implanted beneath the skin to provide a normal heartbeat by electrical stimulation of the heart muscle 3) anat. zool. any specialized body tissue governing …

    From formal English to slang

  • 54pacemaker — /ˈpeɪsmeɪkə / (say paysmaykuh) noun 1. someone who sets the pace, as in racing. 2. a person or group which is followed or imitated on account of its success. 3. Physiology → sinus node. 4. Medicine an instrument implanted beneath the skin to… …

  • 55pacemaker — ja [péjsméjker] m (ẹ̑ ẹ̑) med. priprava, ki z električnimi impulzi spodbuja bitje srca, srčni spodbujevalnik …

    Slovar slovenskega knjižnega jezika

  • 56pacemaker — pace|ma|ker sb., en, e, ne (indopereret apparat der stimulerer hjerteslagene) …

    Dansk ordbog

  • 57pacemaker — I s ( n, pacemakrar) inom sport farthållare II s ( n, pacemakrar) pulsgenerator, hjärtstimulator …

    Clue 9 Svensk Ordbok

  • 58Pacemaker — Pace|ma|ker [...me:kɐ ], der; s, (Pacemacher; Medizin Herzschrittmacher) …

    Die deutsche Rechtschreibung

  • 59pacemaker — n. 1 a competitor who sets the pace in a race. 2 a natural or artificial device for stimulating the heart muscle and determining the rate of its contractions …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 60pacemaker enzyme — The enzyme in a metabolic pathway that catalyzes the slowest or rate limiting reaction; if its rate changes, the pathway s activity changes …

    Dictionary of microbiology