automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator
- automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator
- (AICD), implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) an implantable device that detects sustained ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation and terminates it by a shock or shocks delivered directly to the myocardium.
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