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Pacemaker, Artificial

"Pacemaker, Artificial" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A device designed to stimulate, by electric impulses, contraction of the heart muscles. It may be temporary (external) or permanent (internal or internal-external).


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Pacemaker, Artificial" by people in this website by year, and whether "Pacemaker, Artificial" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 57 publications over 26 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2008 and 2018
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