heart pump
Circulatory assist machine
A heart pump is a mechanical device that assists or replaces the heart's function of circulating blood through the body.
The term covers various technologies, from external machines used during surgery to implantable devices for patients with heart failure: He's been on a heart pump while waiting for a transplant.
Informally, heart pump can refer to the heart itself as the organ that pumps blood.
- bloodBody's oxygen carrier
- ventricleHollow organ chamber
- left ventricleHeart's systemic pumping chamber
- circulationMovement through a system
- aortaChief arterial trunk
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