- pacemaker twiddler syndrome
- twiddler's syndrome in a patient with an artificial cardiac pacemaker.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
pacemaker twiddler syndrome
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syndrome — The aggregate of symptoms and signs associated with any morbid process, and constituting together the picture of the disease. SEE ALSO: disease. [G. s., a running together, tumultuous concourse; (in med.) a concurrence of symptoms, fr. syn,… … Medical dictionary
twiddler's syndrome — dislodgement, breakdown, or other malfunction of an artificial cardiac pacemaker, chemotherapy port, drip infusion valve, or similar implanted diagnostic or therapeutic device as a result of unconscious or habitual manipulation by the patient … Medical dictionary
