Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun ventricular_fibrillation

1 sense of ventricular fibrillation

Sense 1
ventricular fibrillation -- (fibrillation of heart muscles resulting in interference with rhythmic contractions of the ventricles and possibly leading to cardiac arrest)
       => fibrillation -- (muscular twitching involving individual muscle fibers acting without coordination)
       => cardiac arrhythmia, arrhythmia -- (an abnormal rate of muscle contractions in the heart)