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Definition of Fibrillate
1. Verb. Make fine, irregular, rapid twitching movements. "His heart fibrillated and he died"
Definition of Fibrillate
1. Verb. To make irregular, rapid movements. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fibrillate
1. [v -LATED, -LATING, -LATES]
Medical Definition of Fibrillate
1. 1. To make or to become fibrillar. Synonym: fibrillated. 3. To be in a state of fibrillation. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fibrillate
Literary usage of Fibrillate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Germ Warfareby John Lonergan by John Lonergan (2001)
"... to fibrillate. Lindon's brain cells, starved of oxygen and attacked by the
toxins, started to die. Eight minutes later, Lindon's heart stopped. ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1900)
"After the vessels supplying this flap had been tied, the ventricle was caused
caused to fibrillate ; the flap continued to pulsate as before. ..."
3. The Medical Clinics of North America by Richard J. Havel, K. Patrick Ober (1917)
"A beneficial action, we think, is shown in the action of digitalis in the cases
in which the auricles flutter or fibrillate. This irregularity occurred in ..."
4. A Manual of the Infusoria: Including a Description of All Known Flagellate by William Saville-Kent (1880)
"... spire of two coils, the external and basal one equal in width to nearly twice
the diameter of the body, its free border fimbriated or fibrillate; ..."
5. A Text-book of Vegetable and Animal Physiology: Designed for the Use of by Henry Goadby (1858)
"In every instance the cell-wall appeared to dissolve entirely, and exhibited no
tendency to fibrillate; moreover, the fibres of fibrine are, ..."
6. Surgical Pathology and Morbid Anatomy by Anthony Alfred Bowlby (1887)
"The cartilages fibrillate and wear away, and from FIG. 67. Knee-joint from a case
of Char- ... The ligaments also fibrillate, stretch, and waste. ..."
7. Lectures on pathological anatomy: Delivered at Guy's Hospital During the by Samuel Wilks (1859)
"Now, suppose again this plasma should form nuclei and cells, and these should
rapidly be produced and have no tendency to fibrillate, a large mass of ..."
8. The British and Foreign Medical Review: Or Quarterly Journal of Practical (1844)
"... when they escape, fibrillate; whereas, the further the corpuscle is, or the
greater the number of stages of its removal from the circulation, ..."
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