Previous year MCQs

General science UPPSC 2007 GS-I
Question

What is Jarvik-7?

Answer & Solution

Answer: (Detailed Solution Below)

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.

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