mechanical device
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By 2014, he had been fitted with an LVAD, a mechanical device that pumps blood around the body when the heart is too weak to do so.
From BBC • May 21, 2026
When Rodriguez was transferred to UW Medical Center last December, Bellingham doctors had already added a balloon pump — a shorter-term mechanical device that helps pump blood — near her heart to support it.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 27, 2023
Dr. Asleson said Bache used a physiognotrace, a mechanical device that he modified and patented in 1803, that could trace the contours of a human face with “mathematical correctness” without coming into contact with it.
From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2023
Then again, my watch is an example of a formerly mechanical device that now offers me so much more by virtue of being smart and connected.
From Slate • Feb. 12, 2022
He picks up the instrument and opens it to find an exquisite system of cogs and wheels turning inside, resulting in a mechanical device that is capable of telling time.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
