atrial fibrillation

English

Noun

atrial fibrillation (countable and uncountable, plural atrial fibrillations)

1. (pathology) A cardiac arrhythmia (abnormal heart rhythm) that involves the two upper chambers (atria) of the heart.
   • 2024 February 13, “Understanding Your Heart Rate”, in Emory Healthcare‎^[1]:

     The most common type of irregular heartbeat is atrial fibrillation or AFib. It is estimated that between three and six million people in the United States have AFib.

Synonyms

• auricular fibrillation

abbreviations

• AF
• a-fib
• afib
• A-fib

Translations

cardiac arrhythmia

• Arabic: رَجَفَان أُذَيْنِيّ m (rajafān ʔuḏayniyy)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 心房顫動 / 心房颤动 (zh) (xīnfáng chàndòng)

• Danish: hjerteflimmer n, hjerteflimren
• Finnish: eteisvärinä (fi), flimmeri (fi)
• French: fibrillation atriale (fr) f, fibrillation auriculaire (fr) f
• German: Vorhofflimmern n
• Greek: κολπική μαρμαρυγή f (kolpikí marmarygí)
• Hungarian: pitvarfibrilláció
• Italian: fibrillazione atriale f
• Norwegian: atrieflimmer (no) n, harehjerte (no) n
• Polish: migotanie przedsionków (pl) n
• Spanish: fibrilación auricular f
• Swedish: förmaksflimmer (sv) n
• Turkish: atriyal fibrilasyon

Further reading

• atrial fibrillation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia