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)

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

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

   Synonym: pacesetter

Derived terms

• pacemaker current

 

Descendants

• → Danish: pacemaker
• → Swedish: pacemaker

Translations

one who sets the pace in a race

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 帶步人 / 带步人 (dàibùrén)

• 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
• 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 (rare), marcapassi cardiaco m (rare), marcaritmo cardiaco m (rare), ritmatore cardiaco m (rare), ritmizzatore cardiaco m (rare), nodo senoatriale m
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: pêngave diristker f

• Macedonian: предводник m (predvodnik)
• Persian: ضربان‌ساز (zarabân-sâz)
• 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
• German: Herzschrittmacher (de) m, Pacemaker (de) m
• Greenlandic: batteri
• Hindi: गतिनिर्धारक यन्ट् m (gatinirdhārak yanṭ)
• Indonesian: pacu jantung (id)
• Irish: séadaire m
• Italian: pacemaker (it) m, segnapassi cardiaco m (rare), segnaritmo cardiaco m (rare), marcapassi cardiaco m (rare), marcaritmo cardiaco m (rare), ritmatore cardiaco m (rare), ritmizzatore cardiaco m (rare), stimolatore cardiaco m, cardiostimolatore (it) m, regolabattito m (rare)
• 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

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Welsh: ^{(please verify)} amseriadur m, ^{(please verify)} rheoliadur m

See also

• domestique

French

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

Etymology

Borrowed from English pacemaker.

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)