pacemaker

English

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From pace +‎ maker.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪsˌmeɪkəɹ/
Audio (US): (file)

Noun

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

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Danish: pacemaker
→ Dutch: 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)
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:
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
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

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

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English pacemaker.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpeːsˌmeː.kər/
Audio: (file)
Hyphenation: pace‧ma‧ker

Noun

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)

References

van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “pacemaker”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

French

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English pacemaker.

Pronunciation

Audio (France (Lyon)): (file)

Noun

pacemaker m (plural pacemakers)

pacemaker (device)

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English pacemaker.

Pronunciation

Audio: (file)

Noun

pacemaker m (invariable)

pacemaker
Synonym: (rare) segnapassi

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English pacemaker.

Noun

pacemaker n (plural pacemakere)

pacemaker

Declension

	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
	singular		plural
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

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

Declension

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

Related terms

pacemakerbärare

References

pacemaker

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Dutch

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French

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Italian

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Romanian

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Swedish

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