What's the difference between beater and fibrillation?

Beater


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, beats.
  • (n.) A person who beats up game for the hunters.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The tie-breaker isn't quite the buzzer-beater that Jeff Carter converted with tenths of a second left in the first period of Game 3, but it comes with under 30 ticks left in the second period here and has a similar effect.
  • (2) Van Gaal has yet to win away from home – for the first time in 18 years United have gone six Premier League games without a victory on their travels – and with all due respect to their opponents on the road so far, MK Dons, Burnley, Sunderland, Leicester and West Bromwich Albion , they are not exactly world-beaters.
  • (3) While everyone waits for Salazar to hit back at the Panorama claims – a fierce and comprehensive response is expected in the next couple of days – there is at least one thing that all sides can agree on: what Black calls “genius” of the coach has turned Farah into a world beater.
  • (4) The unspun version Asked by Harper's Bazaar magazine to pick her 21st-century heroine, she chose serial servant-beater Naomi Campbell.
  • (5) Peter Crouch, who has been signed three times and sold twice by Redknapp, said: "He builds up players' confidence, telling you every day you can be a world-beater.
  • (6) And Leroy, a former panel beater, whose concern for 14-year-old Nadia's mental and physical decline is touching, yet who appears powerless to prevent her deterioration in front of our eyes.
  • (7) If driven grouse shooting, in which beaters are used to send more birds towards the guns, was banned, Mawle argued, the cost of keeping the moorlands in their attractive, wildlife-friendly state would have to be met by taxpayer.
  • (8) Instead we had the first buzzer beater of this year's tournament as Texas’s Cameron Ridley made an improbable game-winning layup with time expiring.
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest With 2.3 seconds left, Russell Westbrook made a three-pointer to give the Thunder a one point lead that looked like it was going to seal the game, but before anyone could put his clutch three into any perspective, offseason acquisition Andre Iguodala coldly hit a buzzer-beater to shock a Thunder team that shocked the Warriors mere moments before.
  • (10) To check that the mixture is at the right stage, lift the beaters from the bowl – the mixture that falls off should leave a distinct ribbon-like trail on the surface.
  • (11) It was those investors who brought in a savvy team of directors, engineers, business managers and PR professionals who have been working to turn Summly into a potential world-beater, including older staff such as the chief technology officer, Eugene Ciurana, who boasts 20 years' experience in the technology business, and the head of R&D, Inderjeet Mani.
  • (12) Osborne says: We are seeing some sectors that are going to be world-beaters.
  • (13) After all, the first day of the Round of 64 featured four overtime games, three upsets and one dramatic buzzer beater .
  • (14) Most mornings, 15-year-old Iqbal arrives for his job at a Dhaka panel beaters at about 10am, working on cars for up to 13 hours before he can go home.
  • (15) The 23-year-old unemployed panel-beater from Toulouse had been holed up in his flat, surrounded by police, since 3:30am on Wednesday.
  • (16) Loyal gamekeepers and hired-in beaters were packed off ahead of the shooting party in open-top tractors with a cauldron of vegetable soup and cracked mugs.
  • (17) Tissue was extracted in 80% methanol, 20 mM 2-amino-2-methyl-1-propanol, pH 9.5 at 25 degrees C and homogenized in a 1.5-ml Sardstat screw-top test tube containing 0.5-mm glass beads and a minibead beater.
  • (18) For four months after the “glorious twelfth” of August each year, wealthy sportsmen pay up to £3,000 a day to stand with a gun on private moorland while beaters – usually farm workers or local lads – flap and shoo grouse towards the shooters’ sights.
  • (19) Whatever the weather, the beaters would drive the bred pheasants from their woodland home to a prepared unharvested patch of kale, just short of a high wooded copse.
  • (20) 2.08am BST Aside from Jeff Carter's buzzer-beater, the teams are more or less level statistically - shots, hits, giveaways, takeaways are all pretty close to even steven.

Fibrillation


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of being reduced to fibers.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Electrophysiologic studies are indicated in patients with sustained paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation or aborted sudden death.
  • (2) During electrophysiologic study, the effect of propafenone on the effective refractory period of the accessory pathway was determined, as well as its effect during orthodromic atrioventricular (AV) reentrant tachycardia and atrial fibrillation.
  • (3) The patients were classified into two groups according to the presence (n = 166) or absence (n = 176) of documented episodes of atrial fibrillation preoperatively.
  • (4) The majority of the hearts went spontaneously into ventricular fibrillation at some stage of the operation.
  • (5) The interobserver variability of these indices is low (r greater than 0.96); reproducibility is good in patients with sinus rhythm but mediocre in atrial fibrillation.
  • (6) This study demonstrates that 1) complete AV block is not a contraindication to the Fontan operation, 2) some patients may not require AV synchrony postoperatively for survival, and 3) postoperative atrial flutter or fibrillation may cease or be easier to control after the Fontan operation.
  • (7) Prolonged beta-adrenergic stimulation obtained by subcutaneous injection of isoproterenol in unanesthetized, unrestrained rats elicited ventricular fibrillation in approximately 80% of animals at 10-12 months of age.
  • (8) In almost 80% of sudden cardiac deaths in ACMP foci of acute myocardial ischemia are found, that can lead to ventricular fibrillation with lethal outcome.
  • (9) Electrophysiological and muscle histochemical studies of denervated muscle were performed simultaneously in order to determine the relationship between fibrillation potentials and muscle fiber type.
  • (10) The results demonstrate that the addition of pulsatile flow to coronary perfusion minimized the deleterious effects of prolonged ventricular fibrillation on myocardial performance.
  • (11) Ventricular defibrillation was acheived in active conscious dogs with a chronically implanted automatic system composed of a defibrillator and an alternating current fibrillator.
  • (12) Thus, magnesium may be useful in the management of ventricular fibrillation during ischemia.
  • (13) Furthermore, patients with alcohol-related atrial fibrillation were significantly more likely to manifest alcohol withdrawal syndrome than were other inpatients with heavy alcohol use.
  • (14) Complications included perioperative death (3 patients), post-operative ventricular tachycardia (12 patients) and atrial fibrillation (8 patients), perioperative myocardial infarction (1 patient) and device discharges for sinus tachycardia and supraventricular arrhythmias (17 patients).
  • (15) White lines 2 and 5 tended to merge with lines 1 and 4, respectively, in collagen fibrils formed from a solution containing a significant amount of type I collagen or pure type I collagen.
  • (16) The failure of both drugs to protect against ischemic ventricular fibrillation in a model in which beta adrenoceptor antagonism has previously proved beneficial may be due in part to related cardiostimulant properties shared by celiprolol and pindolol.
  • (17) Ventricular fibrillation was then induced and, after predetermined downtimes ranging from 5 to 60 minutes, thoracotomy was performed, and open-chest bimanual cardiac massage was started.
  • (18) At implant, bipolar endocardial electrograms were recorded before each shock application, during ventricular fibrillation, during redetection of ventricular fibrillation in case the applied shock was ineffective, and at intervals of 5, 10, 20, 30, 60, and 120 seconds after each shock delivery.
  • (19) Atrial fibrillation thresholds were determined at baseline (0.0% inhalational anesthetic), 0.5 minimal alveolar concentration (MAC), and 1.0 MAC of halothane (n = 8) and isoflurane (n = 8).
  • (20) All patients with emboli were in atrial fibrillation.

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