Fibrillation

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The forming of fibers.
  • n. Fine, rapid twitching of individual muscle fibers with little or no movement of the muscle as a whole.
  • n. Rapid uncoordinated twitching movements that replace the normal rhythmic contraction of the heart and may cause a lack of circulation and pulse.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The rapid, irregular, and unsynchronized contraction of the muscle fibers of the heart.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The state of being reduced to fibers.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The state of being fibrillar or fibrillated.
  • n. The formation of fibrils.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. act or process of forming fibrils
  • n. muscular twitching involving individual muscle fibers acting without coordination
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