ventricular fibrillation

1. 1.

   fibrillation of heart muscles resulting in interference with rhythmic contractions of the ventricles and possibly leading to cardiac arrest

   Broaderfibrillationcardiac arrhythmia

Questions about ventricular fibrillation

What does ventricular fibrillation mean?

ventricular fibrillation means "fibrillation of heart muscles resulting in interference with rhythmic contractions of the ventricles and possibly leading to cardiac arrest".

Is ventricular fibrillation a common word?

ventricular fibrillation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.