ventricular fibrillation

English

Noun

ventricular fibrillation (usually uncountable, plural ventricular fibrillations)

1. (cardiology) An abnormal heart rhythm in which the ventricles of the heart quiver instead of pumping normally.

Synonyms

• VF, vfib, v-fib, V-fib (abbreviations)

Related terms

• atrial fibrillation
• auricular fibrillation
• ventricular tachycardia

 

Translations

condition where cardiac muscle is contracted irregularly and rapidly

• Arabic: رجفان بطيني m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 室顫／室颤 (shìchàn)

• Finnish: kammiovärinä (fi)
• French: fibrillation ventriculaire (fr) f
• German: Kammerflimmern (de) n
• Greek: κοιλιακή μαρμαρυγή f (koiliakí marmarygí)
• Hungarian: kamrafibrilláció
• Italian: fibrillazione ventricolare f
• Russian: фибрилля́ция желу́дочков f (fibrilljácija želúdočkov)
• Serbo-Croatian: ventrikularna fibrilacija f, treperenje klijetki n
• Swedish: ventrikelflimmer (sv) n, kammarflimmer n