pacemaker - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
- (medicine): peacemaker (misconstruction, non-native speakers' English)
pacemaker (plural pacemakers)
- (anatomy) Specialized cells which stimulate the heart to beat.
natural pacemaker
cardiac pacemaker
- (by extension, medicine) A medical implement that is used to stimulate a heart to beat by simulating the action of the natural pacemaker.
artificial pacemaker
2024 August 19, “LAKETOWN 115-kV TRANSMISSION LINE PROJECT IN CARVER COUNTY, MN”, in Great River Energy[1], page 73:
High intensity EMF can have adverse impacts on the operation of implantable medical devices (IMDs) such as pacemakers and defibrillators.
- (now uncommon) One who sets the pace in a race, to guide the others.
- Synonym: pacesetter
one who sets the pace in a race
- Chinese:
- Dutch: pacemaker (nl) m
- Finnish: vauhdinpitäjä
- French: meneur de train m
- German: Schrittmacher m, Pacemaker (de) m, Tempomacher (de) m
- Irish: séadaire m
- Italian: lepre (it) f, battistrada (it) m
- Polish: zając (pl) m
- Serbo-Croatian: pejsmejker (sh) m
- Spanish: liebre (es) f
- Swedish: hare (sv) c, pacemaker (sv) c
anatomy: set of nerves
- Chinese:
- Finnish: sydänhermo
- Hindi: गतिप्रेरक (gatiprerak)
- Italian: pacemaker (it) m, segnapassi cardiaco m (rare), segnaritmo cardiaco m (uncommon), marcapassi cardiaco m (uncommon), marcaritmo cardiaco m (uncommon), ritmatore cardiaco m (rare), ritmizzatore cardiaco m (uncommon), nodo senoatriale m
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: pêngave diristker f
- Macedonian: предводник m (predvodnik)
- Persian: ضربانساز (zarabân-sâz)
- Polish: węzeł zatokowo-przedsionkowy m
- Spanish: marcapasos (es) m
medical implement
- Catalan: marcapassos (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Czech: kardiostimulátor m
- Danish: pacemaker c
- Dutch: pacemaker (nl) m
- Faroese: kvikil m
- Finnish: sydämentahdistin (fi), tahdistin (fi)
- French: stimulateur cardiaque m, pacemaker (fr), stimulateur (fr) m
- Galician: marcapasos m
- Georgian: ელექტროკარდიოსტიმულატორი (elekṭroḳardiosṭimulaṭori), კარდიოსტიმულატორი (ḳardiosṭimulaṭori)
- German: Herzschrittmacher (de) m, Pacemaker (de) m
- Greenlandic: batteri
- Hindi: गतिनिर्धारक यन्ट् m (gatinirdhārak yanṭ)
- Icelandic: gangráður (is) m
- Indonesian: pacu jantung (id)
- Irish: séadaire m
- Italian: pacemaker (it) m, segnapassi cardiaco m (rare), segnaritmo cardiaco m (uncommon), marcapassi cardiaco m (uncommon), marcaritmo cardiaco m (uncommon), ritmatore cardiaco m (rare), ritmizzatore cardiaco m (uncommon), stimolatore cardiaco (it) m, cardiostimolatore (it) m, regolabattito m (uncommon)
- Japanese: ペースメーカー (ja) (pēsumēkā)
- Korean: 심장박동조율기 (simjangbakdongjoyulgi)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: pêngave diristker a destkar f
- Māori: mīhini whakataki manawa
- Polish: rozrusznik serca (pl) m, rozrusznik m
- Portuguese: marca-passo (pt) m
- Russian: электрокардиостимуля́тор (ru) m (elektrokardiostimuljátor), ЭКС m (EKS), кардиостимуля́тор (ru) m (kardiostimuljátor)
- Serbo-Croatian: pejsmejker (sh) m, srčani elektrostimulator m
- Slovak: kardiostimulátor m
- Spanish: marcapaso m, marcapasos (es) m, estimulador cardíaco m
- Swedish: pacemaker (sv) c
- Turkish: kalp pili
- Welsh: rheolydd calon m
Borrowed from English pacemaker.
pacemaker m (plural pacemakers, diminutive pacemakertje n)
- pacemaker (medical implement that is used to stimulate a heart to beat)
- pacemaker (one who sets the pace in a race, to guide the others)
- Synonym: gangmaker
1887 June 4, “Binnenland”, in Provinciale Noordbrabantsche en 's Hertogenbossche courant[2], 's Hertogenbosch, page 2:
Op hunnen weg reden als pacemakers afwisselend voor hen uit de heeren Pruijmboom en van Raden op premier-safeties.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “pacemaker”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
pacemaker on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl
Unadapted borrowing from English pacemaker.
pacemaker m (plural pacemakers)
- pacemaker (device)
- “pacemaker”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Borrowed from English pacemaker.
pacemaker m (invariable)
- pacemaker
- Synonym: (rare) segnapassi
Unadapted borrowing from English pacemaker.
pacemaker n (plural pacemakere)
From English pacemaker, used since 1891.
pacemaker c
- (sports) a pacemaker, one who sets the pace
- (medicine) a pacemaker, an implant that stimulates the heart to beat
- “pacemaker”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish), (Can we date this quote?)
- “pacemaker”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish), (Can we date this quote?)