noun
ventricular fibrillation
Medical term for a life-threatening cardiac arrhythmia where the ventricles quiver instead of pumping blood.
心室細動が起こると、すぐに除細動が必要です。
When ventricular fibrillation occurs, defibrillation is needed immediately.
Atrial fibrillation, a more common arrhythmia affecting the atria, not immediately life-threatening like ventricular fibrillation.
Compound of 心室 (ventricle) and 細動 (fibrillation), a direct medical term.