fabrillo-, fibrill-, fibrilo-, fibril- +

To arrest the fibrillation or muscular twitching involving individual muscle fibers acting without coordination of (heart muscle) by applying electric shock across the chest, thus depolarizing the heart cells and allowing normal rhythm to return.

1. Medical treatment by stopping the fibrillation of heart muscles; usually by electric shock delivered by a defibrillator.
2. The use of a carefully controlled electric shock, administered either through a device on the exterior of the chest wall or directly to the exposed heart muscle, to restart or normalize heart rhythms.

A device used to correct a dangerously abnormal heart rhythm, usually ventricular fibrillation, or to restart the heart by depolarizing its electrical conduction system and delivering brief measured electrical shocks to the chest wall or the heart muscle itself.

A minute thread of fiber, as one of the fibrous elements of a muscular fiber; a fiber or fibers.

1. Relating to a fibril or consisting of fibrils.
2. Denoting the fine rapid contractions or twitchings of fibers or of small groups of fibers in skeletal or cardiac muscle.

1. To make or to become fibrillar.
2. To be in a state of fibrillation.
3. To make fine, irregular, rapid twitching movements.
4. To undergo rapid irregular beating or uncontrolled contraction, or to make the heart or muscles undergo these activities.

Composed of minute fibers or fibrils.

1. Covered with fibrils more or less evenly disposed.
2. Furnished or abounding with fine fibers.

An abnormal development of fibrous tissue.

1. One of many contractile filaments that make up a striated muscle fiber.
2. Long cylindrical organelle of striated muscle, composed of regular arrays of thick and thin filaments and constituting the contractile apparatus