Fibrillation

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fibrillation \Fi`bril*la"tion\, n.
     The state of being reduced to fibers. --Carpenter.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  fibrillation
       n 1: muscular twitching involving individual muscle fibers acting
            without coordination
       2: act or process of forming fibrils

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  105 Moby Thesaurus words for "fibrillation":
     abscess, ague, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, arrhythmia,
     asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, backache, bleeding,
     blennorhea, brokenness, cachexia, cachexy, capriciousness, chill,
     chills, choppiness, colic, constipation, convulsion, coughing,
     cyanosis, desultoriness, diarrhea, disconnectedness, discontinuity,
     dizziness, dropsy, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, eccentricity,
     edema, emaciation, erraticness, fainting, fatigue, fever,
     fitfulness, fits and starts, fluctuation, flux, growth, hemorrhage,
     high blood pressure, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, icterus,
     inconstancy, indigestion, inflammation, insomnia, intermittence,
     irregularity, itching, jaundice, jerkiness, labored breathing,
     low blood pressure, lumbago, marasmus, nasal discharge, nausea,
     necrosis, nonuniformity, pain, paralysis, patchiness, pruritus,
     rash, rheum, roughness, sclerosis, seizure, shock, skin eruption,
     sneezing, sore, spasm, spasticity, sporadicity, sporadicness,
     spottiness, stagger, tabes, tachycardia, tumor, uncertainty,
     unevenness, unmethodicalness, unpredictability, unsteadiness,
     unsystematicness, upset stomach, variability, vertigo, vomiting,
     wasting, whimsicality, wobble