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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fibrillate.

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Examples

  • The condition involves the left and right atrial chambers of the heart and is characterised by quivering or 'fibrillating' of heart muscles, instead of the usual coordinated contraction.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2010

  • The condition involves the left and right atrial chambers of the heart and is characterised by quivering or 'fibrillating' of heart muscles, instead of the usual coordinated contraction.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • The condition involves the left and right atrial chambers of the heart and is characterised by quivering or 'fibrillating' of heart muscles, instead of the usual coordinated contraction.

    NewsBlaze.com Current News - Top Stories 2010

  • The condition involves the left and right atrial chambers of the heart and is characterised by quivering or 'fibrillating' of heart muscles, instead of the usual coordinated contraction.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

  • It happens when the electrical activity in the two upper chambers of the heart (the atria) gets out of sync and the muscles start "fibrillating" (quivering) instead of contracting normally.

    Red Room: Zoe FitzGerald Carter: Saying Goodbye to Wine Red Room 2011

  • For the best culinary prose is really about a healthy and earthy appetite for life, and the goal of the culinary-inclined author is to stimulate the readers 'senses until they are fibrillating with excitement and ravenous for the very essence of life.

    Richard C. Morais: The Poetry of Pork 2010

  • I could feel the beast's heart fibrillating beneath my cheek, the only part still capable of a death struggle.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • Barney Frank didn't help by fibrillating on Monday that investors everywhere would be afraid to invest after Mr. Madoff.

    Mad Men 2009

  • The American people, in keeping with their reputation as the most misinformed people on the planet, have been the slowest to recognize that as citizens of a clearly fibrillating bourgeois democracy they are perpetually teetering on the brink of fascism.

    Hope, Change, and Pissing in the Wind 2008

  • Yes, it's true that at the center of our health care system there's a giant fibrillating mass of heart and arterial tissue.

    Esther Dyson: Release 0.9: Health2.1 -- Afterthoughts on the Wonderful Health 2.0 Conference 2008

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