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Definition: Defibrillation |
DefibrillationNoun1. Treatment by stopping fibrillation of heart muscles (usually by electric shock delivered by a defibrillator). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | The act to arrest the fibrillation of (heart muscle) by applying electric shock across the chest, thus depolarizing the heart cells and allowing normal rhythm to return. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Defibrillation is a technique used in emergency medicine to save lives when the heart is in an abnormal or damaging rhythm.
Defibrillation involves applying a controlled electrical shock to the heart, simultaneously depolarizing its electrical conduction system, which can permit the heart's electrical rhythm to return to normal. Although the process can be repeated, the number of attempts is, in practice, limited, to a series of three or four attempts at increasing voltages, as the likelihood of restoring normal heart rhythm is much less in successive attempts.
An automatic external defibrillator (AED) is now available for use by laypeople.
Defibrillation can cause electrical burns.
See also: CPR, advanced cardiac life support, cardioversion
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Defibrillation."
Crosswords: Defibrillation |
| Non-English Usage: "Defibrillation" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (defibrillation). |
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| "Defibrillation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Defibrillation" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 16 | 87,710 |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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defibrillation | 61 |
biphasic defibrillation | 7 |
automated external defibrillation | 5 |
public access defibrillation | 4 |
cardiac defibrillation | 4 |
atrial defibrillation | 2 |
defibrillation early | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "defibrillation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | defibrillering. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | defibrillatie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | défibrillation. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Defibrillation. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | απινιδισμός δια συνεχούς ρεύματος (cardioversion, direct current defibrillation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | defibrillazione. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | efibrillationday desfibrilhação. (various references) desfibrilación. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "defibrillation": defibrillations. (additional references) | |
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"Defibrillation" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: defebrillation, defibrilation, defribrillation. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-f-i-i-i-l-l-n-o-r-t" | |
-2 letters: fibrillation. | |
-3 letters: billionaire, fibrillated. | |
-4 letters: fibrillate, initialled, liberation, notifiable. | |
-5 letters: airlifted, bandolier, brilliant, deflation, defoliant, editorial, fellation, fibrillae, fibrinoid, filiation, filtrable, flatlined, flatliner, floriated, initialed, interfold, interlaid, introfied, libidinal, libration, nitrified, reflation. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-f-i-i-i-l-l-n-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: defibrillations. | |
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HTML Code (1990) (references)D e f i b r i l l a t i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 0066 0069 0062 0072 0069 006C 006C 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E |
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