DEFIBRILLATION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Treatment by stopping fibrillation of heart muscles (usually by electric shock delivered by a defibrillator)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("defibrillation" is a kind of...):

medical aid; medical care (professional treatment for illness or injury)

Derivation:

defibrillate (stop the fibrillation and restore normal contractions, usually by means of electric shocks)

You should give cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to a person having SCA until defibrillation can be done.

(Cardiac Arrest, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)