Pacemaker (disambiguation)

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the word pacemaker most often is the informal term for an artificial cardiac pacemaker, a medical device that uses electrical impulses to regulate the beating of the heart. The word may also refer to:

Medicine

• Biological pacemaker, the use of transplanted cells or genes that either act as a cardiac pacemaker or transform existing cells into pacemaker cells
• Brain pacemaker, a device that sends electrical impulses to the brain to relieve depression, epilepsy, or other conditions
• Cardiac pacemaker, a group of cells within the heart that initiate contractions and set the pace of beating
  • Artificial cardiac pacemaker
• Diaphragmatic pacemaker, a device used to help patients breathe through pacing of the diaphragm

Other uses

• Pacemaker (running), a runner who enters a race to set a fast pace for other competitors
• Pacemaker (cycling)
• The Pacemaker, a pocket-sized DJ system
• National Pacemaker Awards, American awards for excellence in student journalism
• Pacemaker (software), a scalable high-availability cluster resource manager, split from Linux-HA
• Pacemaker (train), an American passenger train
• Pacemaker Entertainment, a Canadian record label part of the Canadian Independent Record Production Association
• Pacemaker, a fictional talk-radio program on the Public Liberty Radio station in the Grand Theft Auto IV game soundtrack

See also

• The Pacemakers (disambiguation)

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