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“defibrillate”
defibrillate (verb), defibrillates; defibrillated; defibrillating
To arrest the muscular twitching involving individual muscle fibers of the heart that move without normal coordination: Defibrillating is performed by applying electric shocks across a person's chest which depolarizes the heart cells and allows normal rhythms to return.
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fabrillo-, fibrill-, fibrilo-, fibril-
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