atrial fibrillation

English

Noun

atrial fibrillation (plural atrial fibrillations)

(pathology) A cardiac arrhythmia (abnormal heart rhythm) that involves the two upper chambers (atria) of the heart.

Synonyms

auricular fibrillation

abbreviations

Translations

Cardiac arrhythmia

Arabic: رجفان أذيني m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 心房顫動／心房颤动 (zh) (xīnfáng chàndòng)
Finnish: eteisvärinä (fi), flimmeri (fi)
French: fibrillation atriale (fr) f, fibrillation auriculaire (fr) f
German: Vorhofflimmern n
Greek: κολπική μαρμαρυγή f (kolpikí marmarygí)
Hungarian: pitvarfibrilláció
Italian: fibrillazione atriale f
Norwegian: atrieflimmer (no) n, harehjerte (no) n
Spanish: fibrilación auricular f
Swedish: förmaksflimmer (sv) n
Turkish: atriyal fibrilasyon

Further reading

atrial fibrillation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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