pacemaker

English

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From pace +‎ maker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪsˌmeɪkəɹ/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

pacemaker (plural pacemakers)

English Wikipedia has an article on:

pacemaker

Wikipedia

1. (anatomy) A set of nerves which stimulate the heart to beat.

   natural pacemaker

   cardiac pacemaker

2. (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, page 73:

     High intensity EMF can have adverse impacts on the operation of implantable medical devices (IMDs) such as pacemakers and defibrillators.

3. (now uncommon) One who sets the pace in a race, to guide the others.

   Synonym: pacesetter

Derived terms

• biopacemaker
• neuropacemaker
• pacemaker current
• pacemakerlike
• pacemaker syndrome

Descendants

• → Danish: pacemaker
• → Swedish: pacemaker

Translations

one who sets the pace in a race

Chinese: Mandarin: 帶步人 / 带步人 (dàibùrén), 配速員 / 配速员 (pèisùyuán) 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: Cantonese: 竇房結 / 窦房结 (dau6 fong4 git3) Mandarin: 竇房結 / 窦房结 (dòufángjié) 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: Mandarin: 起搏器 (zh) (qǐbóqì) Czech: kardiostimulátor m Danish: pacemaker c 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 Maori: 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

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Welsh: (please verify) amseriadur m, (please verify) rheoliadur m

See also

• domestique

French

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English pacemaker.

Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

pacemaker m (plural pacemakers)

1. pacemaker (device)

Further reading

• “pacemaker”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

pacemaker

Wikipedia ^it

Etymology

Borrowed from English pacemaker.

Pronunciation

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Noun

pacemaker m (invariable)

1. pacemaker

   Synonym: (rare) segnapassi

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English pacemaker.

Noun

pacemaker n (plural pacemakere)

1. pacemaker

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	pacemaker	pacemakerul		pacemakere	pacemakerele
genitive-dative	pacemaker	pacemakerului		pacemakere	pacemakerelor
vocative	pacemakerule			pacemakerelor

Swedish

Etymology

From English pacemaker, used since 1891.

Noun

pacemaker c

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

Declension

Declension of pacemaker

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	pacemaker	pacemakers
	definite	pacemakern	pacemakerns
plural	indefinite	pacemakrar	pacemakrars
	definite	pacemakrarna	pacemakrarnas

Related terms

• pacemakerbärare

References

• pacemaker in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• pacemaker in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)