fibrillation

English

Etymology

From New Latin fibrilla, diminutive of Latin fibra (“fiber”) in reference to the muscle strands of the heart.

Noun

fibrillation (countable and uncountable, plural fibrillations)

The rapid, irregular, and unsynchronized contraction of the muscle fibers of the heart.

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Translations

contraction of the muscle fibers of the heart

Bulgarian: фибрилация f (fibrilacija)
Finnish: fibrillaatio, värinä
French: fibrillation (fr) f

Italian: fibrillazione (it) f
Spanish: fibrilación (es) f

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