VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ventricular fibrillation mean? 

• VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION (noun)
  The noun VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION (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)

 Context examples 

Ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation whose cause is unknown.

(Idiopathic Primary Ventricular Tachycardia/Ventricular Flutter by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

An electrocardiographic finding of ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation of unknown cause.

(Idiopathic Primary Ventricular Tachycardia/Ventricular Flutter by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)

This drug is used to treat and suppress ventricular arrhythmias, particularly ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia.

(Bretylium Tosylate, NCI Thesaurus)

Sudden cessation of the pumping function of the heart, with disappearance of arterial blood pressure, connoting either ventricular fibrillation or ventricular standstill.

(Cardiac Arrest, Food and Drug Administration)