(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.
Trembled
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Tremble
Example Sentences:
(1) Facial twitch was followed by the generalized convulsion, further progressing to trembling of the limbs and then kicking of the hindlimb (full seizure) after 55 days of age.
(2) "To be honest, I dream of the Premier League," replied the Lille forward, setting hearts a-trembling across England.
(3) One chronically discomposed self-structure, defining itself as polluted and helpless, trembles with the appalling imagery of historical and imminent community disasters.
(4) Simulated gait abnormalities involve weakness of 1 or both legs or ataxia and trembling.
(5) Sweating, trembling, inability to concentrate, weakness, hunger and blurred vision were the most frequently reported symptoms.
(6) Chu, with trembling lips, said that “a 70-year-old like me is unable to lead all the Occupy protestors home unharmed and protect young people from being hit”.
(7) Five to 10 min after the drug administration, the camels at both dosages showed lacrimation, salivation, trembling, restlessness, frequent urination and defecation, followed by diarrhea.
(8) Therefore, the coat-color remained cream in ee (cream) hamsters showing only trembling.
(9) He was eventually thrown out by a lacklustre landlord who finally listened to my trembling 3am calls for action.
(10) Panic-related chest pain, dyspnea, trembling, and fear were important factors in the development, pervasiveness, and severity of situational fears and anticipatory anxiety.
(11) The force of the blast made the ground tremble in the Chinese border city of Yanji, 130 miles away.
(12) The basic features included a brief, involuntary, coarse, irregular, wavering movement or tremble involving arm-hand alone, or arm-hand and leg together.
(13) These movements, which were often abnormal, included trembling and asynchronism.
(14) Though the route map that Wenger had provided was clear enough, his men held it with trembling hands.
(15) When he speaks, his voice trembles: "If Nato hadn't intervened, none of us would be here," he cries.
(16) The shiverer mutation consists of a deletion of the 3' end of the myelin basic protein gene which completely prevents production of mature mRNA and protein, and results in severe dysmyelination and a trembling behavior.
(17) His agonising efforts to appease his dying father and establish a relationship with his sister, Glory, are so finely grained, so trembling with a sense of life unlived, and without the neat, redemptive ending of the previous novel, that it is a much stronger and more radical piece.
(18) On the current track, maybe life does become unbearable in the future, when the last remaining cubic centimetre of public space – a trembling pocket of air perhaps, in a cellar at the Emirates British Library – is finally acquired by a friend of King Charles III.
(19) The following clinical signs such as pronounced muscle fasciculation, trembling, grinding teeth, ataxia, lateral recumbency, bloating, regurgitation, hyperesthesia, mydriasis and convulsions were observed.
(20) Similarly, the prominent 4- and 8-Hz peaks, found in the smoothed EMG power spectra from trembling muscles, were eliminated if the limb was effectively prevented from trembling.