Aeds

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. Plural devices used to revive a person in cardiac arrest with electric shocks ; abbreviation for automated external defibrillators
2. Portable electronic instruments designed to deliver life-saving shocks to those experiencing sudden heart failure ; acronym for machines called automated external defibrillators
3. Medical apparatus employed to restore normal heart rhythm by electrical stimulation in emergencies ; shortened term referring to automated external defibrillators

Etymology: "AEDs" is the plural of AED, an abbreviation for automated external defibrillator, a portable device that delivers an electric shock to a heart in cardiac arrest to restore a normal rhythm. The abbreviation takes the initial letters of its three words: automated, external and defibrillator. The last combines the prefix "de-", meaning undoing, with "fibrillation", the rapid, quivering contraction of heart muscle, which descends from Latin "fibrilla", a little fibre.

Synonyms: AEDs, automated external defibrillators