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cardioverter en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˌkɑː(ɹ)diəʊˈvɜː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)/

Etymology

Etymology tree English cardiovert Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English cardioverter From cardiovert + -er.

Meanings

1. A machine that performs cardioversion (specifically, electrocardioversion), in either hospital equipment form or implantable form.
   • According to the US Food and Drug Administration, 398,740 of St. Jude Medical’s implantable cardioverter defibrillators, known as ICDs, and cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators, known as CRT-Ds, are affected with premature battery depletion. 2016 October 11, Hailey Middlebrook, “After 2 deaths, patients warned about heart defibrillators’ failed batteries”, in CNN:

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