defibrillation

noun

treatment by stopping fibrillation of heart muscles (usually by electric shock delivered by a defibrillator)

Roots

dede- · Latin · reversal, removal fibrafibr- · Latin · fiber, filament illusill- · Latin · small atio-ation · Latin · action, process

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