verb
- to undergo fibrillation; to contract in a rapid, irregular, uncoordinated manner
Usage: medical
Examples
- The patient’s heart fibrillates dangerously during the procedure.
- When the muscle fibrillates, it cannot pump blood effectively.
- The doctor monitored the heart to see if it fibrillates again.
- Atrial tissue sometimes fibrillates after cardiac surgery.
- The defibrillator was used when the heart fibrillates irregularly.
- Damaged heart muscle often fibrillates instead of beating normally.