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VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION
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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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