VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fibrillation of heart muscles resulting in interference with rhythmic contractions of the ventricles and possibly leading to cardiac arrest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("ventricular fibrillation" is a kind of...):

arrhythmia; cardiac arrhythmia (an abnormal rate of muscle contractions in the heart)

fibrillation (muscular twitching involving individual muscle fibers acting without coordination)

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