cardioverter

English

Etymology

From cardiovert +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌkɑː(ɹ)diəʊˈvɜː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)/

Noun

cardioverter (plural cardioverters)

  1. A machine that performs cardioversion (specifically, electrocardioversion), in either hospital equipment form or implantable form.
    • 2016 October 11, Hailey Middlebrook, “After 2 deaths, patients warned about heart defibrillators’ failed batteries”, in CNN‎[1]:
      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.
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