Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive & transitive verb To undergo or cause to undergo fibrillation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To form into fibrils or fibers.
- Same as
fibrillated . - To form fibrils, as coagulating blood.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To make
irregular ,rapid movements.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make fine, irregular, rapid twitching movements
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I want to be a cool mom like Sarah Connor, who can both make a mean pb&j AND fibrillate her own boob.
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As soon as we were out of sight, he began kissing me, stinging kisses that made my heart fibrillate.
Bleeding Violet Dia Reeves 2010
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As soon as we were out of sight, he began kissing me, stinging kisses that made my heart fibrillate.
Bleeding Violet Dia Reeves 2010
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Indeed, increasingly in the United States, death has become the province of technicians, those who fibrillate and ventilate, trache and tube, plug and unplug.
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When the heart begins to fibrillate, the ICD emits a jolt of electricity to disrupt the abnormal rhythm and restore the normal heart rate.
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CHARLES WILMER, CARDIOLOGIST: He was so unstable that he would literally be shocked, go back into regular rhythm long enough to start to wake up, and then he would fibrillate lose consciousness.
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She had a convulsion, her respiration grew slow and shallow, her heart began to fibrillate, and she passed inexorably into coma.
The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990
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It was while * Wait was in this position that his heart began to fibrillate -- which is to say that its fibers began to twitch in an uncoordinated manner, so that the march of the blood in his circulatory system was no longer orderly.
Galapagos Vonnegut, Kurt 1985
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So to see this guy climbing on to high-voltage power lines from a helicopter and not fibrillate his own heart is a wonder to behold, indeed:
Dr. Wes DrWes 2010
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The atria continue to fibrillate, though, and anticoagulant medication is still required.
Find Me A Cure 2010
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