(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.
Wimple
Definition:
(n.) A covering of silk, linen, or other material, for the neck and chin, formerly worn by women as an outdoor protection, and still retained in the dress of nuns.
(n.) A flag or streamer.
(v. t.) To clothe with a wimple; to cover, as with a veil; hence, to hoodwink.
(v. t.) To draw down, as a veil; to lay in folds or plaits, as a veil.
(v. t.) To cause to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to cause to ripple or undulate; as, the wind wimples the surface of water.
(v. i.) To lie in folds; also, to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to ripple; to undulate.
Example Sentences:
(1) No question, Kardashian does dress in a way that shows her backside's shape, but I'm not really sure what else she should do, other than wear a wimple .
(2) So we get male characters covered in body paint, as we might have expected in the late Iron Age; and high-status females wearing coifs and wimples, as they would have done in the 14th and 15th centuries.
(3) "Boil the kettle," snaps Sister Julienne, wimple-deep in amniotic fluid.
(4) Poor old Saggy Nun, aka Oliver Peters, who occasionally competes in a wimple, barely got off the start line before hitting a barrier and wiping out.
(5) Between Nancy Reagan’s death and her funeral on Friday 11 March, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence reached out in their own wimpled way to share their pain, their anger and, occasionally, their sympathy.
(6) There is a glorious, back-to-the-70s daftness about Horrible Histories' parade of togas, wimples, ruffs and tights that makes it appealing – to a wide audience.
(7) There was Sister Wendy Beckett in her wimple becoming an unlikely TV star in Britain as an art critic.