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fibrillation medical definition
noun
- Fine, rapid twitching of individual muscle fibers with little or no movement of the muscle as a whole.
- The formation of fibrils.
- Vermicular twitching, usually slow, of individual muscular fibers, commonly occurring in the atria or ventricles of the heart and in recently denervated skeletal muscle fibers.
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