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fibrillation
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun fibrillation has 2 senses
- fibrillation(n = noun.state) Array - muscular twitching involving individual muscle fibers acting without coordination; Array is a kind of twitch, twitching, vellication
- fibrillation(n = noun.act) Array - act or process of forming fibrils; Array is a kind of branching, fork, forking, ramification
has particulars: atrial fibrillation, ventricular fibrillation
Derived form verb fibrillate1
CIDE DICTIONARY
fibrillation, n.
The state of being reduced to fibers. Carpenter. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
fibrillation
abscess, ague, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, arrhythmia, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, backache, bleeding, blennorhea, brokenness, cachexia, cachexy, capriciousness, chill, chills, choppiness, colic, constipation, convulsion, coughing, cyanosis, desultoriness, diarrhea, disconnectedness, discontinuity, dizziness, dropsy, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, eccentricity, edema, emaciation, erraticness, fainting, fatigue, fever, fitfulness, fits and starts, fluctuation, flux, growth, hemorrhage, high blood pressure, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, icterus, inconstancy, indigestion, inflammation, insomnia, intermittence, irregularity, itching, jaundice, jerkiness, labored breathing, low blood pressure, lumbago, marasmus, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis, nonuniformity, pain, paralysis, patchiness, pruritus, rash, rheum, roughness, sclerosis, seizure, shock, skin eruption, sneezing, sore, spasm, spasticity, sporadicity, sporadicness, spottiness, stagger, tabes, tachycardia, tumor, uncertainty, unevenness, unmethodicalness, unpredictability, unsteadiness, unsystematicness, upset stomach, variability, vertigo, vomiting, wasting, whimsicality, wobble
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