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Question

What is Jarvik-7?

  1. Electronic foot
  2. Pacemaker
  3. Artificial heart
  4. Artificial eye

Answer:

Option C: Artificial heart

Detailed Solution:

The correct answer is “Artificial heart”.

In the early 1980s an American physician named Robert Jarvik developed a plastic and Velcro pump that replicated the lower two chambers of the heart. It was 'pumped' by compressed air, and monitored by cumbersome 1980s computers.