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Word: abiocors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
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Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 2000 TIME Current Events Quiz | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

...through the skin and thus providing a possible infection site, but researchers have found ways to keep the invasiveness to a minimum. The Jarvik 2000--a far more elegant successor to the Jarvik-7--runs power through a fixed jack implanted behind the patient's ear. And Abiomed's AbioCor uses a small transmitter outside the skin to beam radio waves for conversion to electricity inside. Designers have also found ingenious ways to have their hearts do the actual pumping: the AbioCor is essentially a sphere within a sphere, with the inner ball scuttling back and forth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reviving Artificial Hearts | 5/8/2000 | See Source »

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