(v. t.) To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings.
(v. t.) To drive in disorder; to throw into confusion.
(n.) The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion; vibration; as, the flutter of a fan.
(n.) Hurry; tumult; agitation of the mind; confusion; disorder.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fluttering in the background was a black flag adorned with white script, the “black flag of jihad”.
(2) A patient with mitral stenosis and atrial flutter was found to have a normal diastolic closure rate (E to F slope).
(3) 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.
(4) Several attempts at circuit interruption of type 1 atrial flutter by means of surgical or catheter techniques have been published.
(5) The authors report 6 cases of acute respiratory failure complicating chronic bronchial and lung disease admitted to hospital with the diagnosis of: heart disease, 3 cases, pulmonary oedema, pulmonary embolism, atrial flutter; status asthmaticus : one case; neuro-psychiatric disease : 2 cases (toxic coma and agitation).
(6) Thirty patients with long-standing (mean 30 days) type I atrial flutter (AF) were treated with overdrive atrial pacing.
(7) Mean proficiency scores were 51% for atrial flutter and 35% for ventricular tachycardia.
(8) However, atrial flutter often recurs despite the use of these conventional antiarrhythmic regimens.
(9) The results of programmed stimulation were estimated to be positive when sustained or unsustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardia was triggered, and negative when ventricular fibrillation, ventricular flutter unsustained polymorphic ventricular tachycardia or no arrhythmia could be induced.
(10) AJ Green was waiting just behind him, and the receiver gratefully pulled in the softly fluttering ball.
(11) Single or repetitive supraventricular premature beats were found in 65 (41%), paroxysmal atrial or junctional tachycardias in 20 (12%), bouts of atrial flutter or fibrillation in 3 (2%).
(12) This study investigated the effects of pharmacologically induced changes in atrial conduction velocity and refractoriness, in the conversion and suppression of atrial flutter induced in the open-chest anesthetized dog by intercaval crush and rapid atrial pacing.
(13) (5) Development of postoperative atrial fibrillation or flutter has not been associated with peroperative or postoperative events.
(14) The results of 181 therapeutic stimulations in cases of atrial flutter (a-flut) have shown that a-flut is terminated in a wide range by means of programmed stimulation (PS).
(15) At follow-up (mean 6.5 years), 83% of the patients were alive (49% without atrial flutter and 34% with atrial flutter) and 17% died (10% suddenly, 6% of nonsudden cardiac cause and 1% of noncardiac cause).
(16) Five patients with bicuspid aortic valves showed mitral valve diastolic flutter indicative of aortic regurgitation.
(17) Spontaneous change in direction of F waves in atrial flutter is rare.
(18) SVT includes paroxysmal SVT, atrial flutter, atrial tachycardia and junctional tachycardia (enhanced automaticity).
(19) There was an area of slow conduction during atrial flutter in the low right atrium.
(20) Recent studies of human type 1 atrial flutter demonstrated reentry in the right atrium and an area of slow conduction in the low posteroseptal right atrium.
Shudder
Definition:
(v. i.) To tremble or shake with fear, horrer, or aversion; to shiver with cold; to quake.
(n.) The act of shuddering, as with fear.
Example Sentences:
(1) For a while yesterday, Hazel Blears's selfishly-timed resignation with her rude "rock the boat" brooch send shudders of revulsion through some in the party.
(2) she shudders – she has declined all reality TV invitations, and the closest she has ever come to a wardrobe malfunction was a minor ding-dong over some exposed thigh once while presenting Crimewatch, about which she was mortified.
(3) We need only look at Holland, Belgium or Denmark, and shudder.
(4) And while some of the 12-member panel still shudder at the memory , four of them – Paul Ryan, Patty Murray, James Clyburn and Rob Portman – got the band back together, with 25 other lawmakers from both parties and both houses.
(5) All good things must come to an end and, sure enough, Chelsea’s 23-game unbeaten run was brought to a shuddering halt by Alan Pardew’s pace-suffused counterattacking specialists.
(6) Blood gutters brightly against his green gown, yet the man doesn't shudder or stagger or sink but trudges towards them on those tree-trunk legs and rummages around, reaches at their feet and cops hold of his head and hoists it high, and strides to his steed, snatches the bridle, steps into the stirrup and swings into the saddle still gripping his head by a handful of hair.
(7) I shudder to think what will happen when that glue is no longer there, but we rally round and put our differences aside.
(8) Instead he buried them in paper, interring them in a tortuous numbering system he devised himself, or in the case of some detailed anatomical details of women's genitals, folding over the page to conceal them, undoubtedly with a shudder of revulsion.
(9) "It's bringing back the worst memories of the Sarkozy era," warned a Socialist teacher in La Rochelle, shuddering at Sarkozy's public breakup with Cecilia .
(10) I could feel her breath shuddering through her body.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump supporter sucker-punches black protester at rally We cannot know, and I shudder to think, how deeply these influences have conditioned public consciousness.
(12) "It wouldn't have mattered if banks hadn't been gross risk-takers, this way of doing business would still have come to a shuddering halt.
(13) The goalkeeper shudders at the memory of his appearance on RTL's Who Wants to be a Millionaire ?
(14) Four patients who were injected with 10 mg or more experienced fever, shudder and vague abdominal and articular pain.
(15) One side of the sports hall backs on to classrooms, which shudder when balls hit its walls; the other adjoins music rooms.
(16) You might shudder at such crassness, but if you're paying a premium for organic vegetables, you may be subconsciously signalling another desirable trait: conscientiousness.
(17) On the journey the man begins to convulse, his body shuddering and shaking uncontrollably.
(18) I don’t feel too jolly in most shops, so shudder to think how the poor staff feel.
(19) No significant difference existed among these three groups of patients with respect to the over-all incidence of carotid shudders or with respect to the incidence of coarse or fine shudders.
(20) Beteta's words will not trouble British tourists practising their golf swing or soaking up the sun on Andalucía's Mediterranean beaches, but they must have produced shudders in Brussels – and on the international bond markets that now view Spain as the biggest threat to the euro.