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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: muscular twitching involving individual muscle fibers acting without coordination
2: act or process of forming fibrils

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1845 1. an act or process of forming fibers or fibrils 2. a. a muscular twitching involving individual muscle fibers acting without coordination b. very rapid irregular contractions of the muscle fibers of the heart resulting in a lack of synchronism between heartbeat and pulse

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fibrillation Fi`bril*la"tion, n. The state of being reduced to fibers. --Carpenter.

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