atrial fibrillation

English

Noun

atrial fibrillation (plural atrial fibrillations)

1. (pathology) A cardiac arrhythmia (abnormal heart rhythm) that involves the two upper chambers (atria) of the heart.

Synonyms

• auricular fibrillation

 

abbreviations

• AF
• a-fib
• afib
• A-fib

 

Translations

Cardiac arrhythmia

• Arabic: رجفان أذيني m
• Chinese:

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

• 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
• Spanish: fibrilación auricular f
• Swedish: förmaksflimmer (sv) n
• Turkish: atriyal fibrilasyon

Further reading

• atrial fibrillation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia