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artificial heart
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Noun1.artificial heart - a pump that replaces the natural heart
implant - a prosthesis placed permanently in tissue
Jarvik artificial heart, Jarvik heart - a kind of artificial heart that has been used with some success


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Richard Smith, MSEE, CCE, has been named the recipient of the Barney Clark Award by the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs.
These patients include Lou Gehrig (whose name became eponymous with a disease), Barney Clark (recipient of the first permanent artificial heart), Lorenzo Odone (subject of the movie Lorenzo's Oil), and AIDS activists.
 
 
 
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