ventricular fibrillation
[ ven-trik-yuh-ler fib-ruh-ley-shuhn ]
nounPathology.
a cardiac arrhythmia, or irregular heartbeat, caused by rapid, chaotic electrical impulses to the ventricles: prevents the heart from pumping blood normally, which leads to a complete loss of blood pressure and pulse, followed rapidly by death if not treated. Abbreviation: VF, VFib.: Compare atrial fibrillation.
Origin of ventricular fibrillation
1First recorded in 1905–10
- See also fibrillation (def. 2).
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How to use ventricular fibrillation in a sentence
The rhythm on the monitor was ventricular fibrillation, random electrical oscillations.
Real Life Lazarus: When Patients Rise From the Dead | Sandeep Jauhar | August 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe patient had three convulsions and died with edema of lungs about 30 hours after the attack of ventricular fibrillation.
Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: | Louis Marshall WarfieldRecently G. Canby Robinson has seen and made electrocardiograms of a case of ventricular fibrillation.
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