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A pacemaker is a competitor who enters an athletics race with
little or no intention of winning, but purely to set a fast pace for other competitors to follow.
The heart pacemaker is a group of cells within the heart that
together initiate contractions and set the pace of beating. For most people, this is a group of cells in the right atrium of the heart, otherwise known as the sinoatrial node.
Also related to the heart, "pacemaker" is the common term for an artificial pacemaker device, which was developed by Wilfred Bigelow, John A. Hopps, and J. C. Callahan. The first pacemaker implanted into a human was designed in 1958 by Rune Elmqvist,
Sweden.
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