pacemaker

IPA: pˈeɪsmeɪkɝ

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

Examples of "pacemaker" in Sentences

I think the vice president used the term pacemaker plus.
Leahy says this so-called pacemaker plus lets him live on borrowed time.
The most serious side effect seen in the pacemaker has been an infection linked to surgery.
We all know that heart monitor or pacemaker is just an illusion and has no basis on quantum mechanics.
He's also had quadruple bypass surgery, a stent, and what Mr. Cheney called a pacemaker-plus implanted.
I wonder how the average handicapped person with false limbs or a pacemaker is going to like on that scanner …
It is in the so-called pacemaker of their brain, which regulates the activities of other cells of the body through the day.
The research, led by scientists in the U.K., targeted the HCN2 gene, one of four genes that form a so-called pacemaker or HCN channel, which regulates electrical activity in the heart.
Deep brain stimulation, sometimes called a pacemaker for the brain, has helped halt tremors in more than 100,000 patients with Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders since 1997.