- Jarvik heart
- nouna kind of artificial heart that has been used with some success• Syn: ↑Jarvik artificial heart• Hypernyms: ↑artificial heart
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Jarvik heart
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Jarvik-7 — Jar·vik 7 jär vik sev ən n an air driven artificial heart that remains tethered to an external console after implantation and that was formerly implanted in human patients in a clinical study called also Jarvik heart Jarvik Robert Koffler (b… … Medical dictionary
Jarvik artificial heart — noun a kind of artificial heart that has been used with some success • Syn: ↑Jarvik heart • Hypernyms: ↑artificial heart … Useful english dictionary
Jarvik — is a surname and may refer to:* Erik Jarvik (1907 ndash; 1998), Swedish paleozoologist * Robert Jarvik (b. 1946), American scientist and inventor ** Jarvik 7 artificial heart … Wikipedia
Robert Jarvik — ] Jarvik is a graduate of Syracuse University. He earned a master’s degree in medical engineering from New York University. After that he went to work for Dr. Willem Johan Kolff, a Dutch born physician inventor at the University of Utah, who… … Wikipedia
Jarvik-7 artificial heart — Jar·vik 7 artificial heart (jahrґvik) [Robert Koffler Jarvik, American cardiologist, 20th century] see under heart … Medical dictionary
heart — A hollow muscular organ that receives the blood from the veins and propels it into the arteries. In mammals it is divided by a musculomembranous septum into two halves right or venous and left or arterial each of which consists of a receiving… … Medical dictionary
Jarvik-7 — Artificial heart invented by Robert Jarvik (1946–) … Bryson’s dictionary for writers and editors
Jarvik-7 — /jahr vik sev euhn/, Med., Trademark. a four valved artificial heart for implantation in the human body, replacing the natural heart s ventricles and attaching to its atria: air is pumped into the ventricles from an external air compressor… … Universalium
Jarvik-7 artificial heart — original name for an air driven artificial heart consisting of two smooth surfaced, sac like polyurethane pumps that replaced the ventricles, and two pneumatic power units that regulated blood flow by pulsing air through tubing drive lines; it is … Medical dictionary
Jarvik-7 — /jahr vik sev euhn/, Med., Trademark. a four valved artificial heart for implantation in the human body, replacing the natural heart s ventricles and attaching to its atria: air is pumped into the ventricles from an external air compressor… … Useful english dictionary
