a local and uncontrollable twitching of muscle fibres in which the heart stops beating
ventricular fibrillation in American English
noun
Pathology
a cardiac arrhythmia characterized by rapid, chaotic electrical impulses to the ventricles, incomplete ventricular contractions, and resultant loss of pulse and blood pressure
Examples of 'ventricular fibrillation' in a sentence
ventricular fibrillation
Any kind of ventricular fibrillation and that ECG monitor's going to go crazy.
Daisy Waugh TEN STEPS TO HAPPINESS (2003)
The most common one is ventricular fibrillation - when the heart tracing goes into a very wavy line.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
For every minute that elapses from the onset of ventricular fibrillation the chances of a successful resuscitation drop by 10 per cent.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
I suspect he probably had ventricular fibrillation - that is a cardiac arrest where he loses output and immediately collapses.