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Fibrillation
1) An act or process of forming fibres or fibrils.
2) A muscular twitching involving individual muscle fibres acting without coordination.
3) Very rapid irregular contractions of the muscle fibres of the heart resulting in a lack of synchronism between heartbeat and pulse.
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