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fibrillate
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb fibrillate has 1 sense
- fibrillate(v = verb.body) Array - make fine, irregular, rapid twitching movements; "His heart fibrillated and he died" is one way to jerk, twitch
Derived form noun fibrillation1
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
fibrillate, v.
1 intr. a (of a fibre) split up into fibrils. b (of a muscle, esp. in the heart) undergo a quivering movement in fibrils.
2 tr. break (a fibre) into fibrils.
1 intr. a (of a fibre) split up into fibrils. b (of a muscle, esp. in the heart) undergo a quivering movement in fibrils.
2 tr. break (a fibre) into fibrils.
Derivative
fibrillation n.
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