Fibrillation

Fibrillation describes spontaneous twitching of individual muscle fibers in the skeletal muscles. These twitches are invisible to the human eye.

In some diseases, uncontrolled small muscle fiber twitches can appear as a symptom . In the cardiology to "fibrillation" 'refers to rapid, irregular, and unsynchronized muscle contractions of the heart muscle , where it is a medical technical term from the English literature, less common in the Germans ( atrial fibrillation - atrial fibrillation , fibrillation ventricular - ventricular fibrillation ).

Demarcation

• Fasciculation - short muscle bundle twitching visible under the skin without any movement effect
• Myoclonia - muscle twitching with or without the effect of movement
• Tremor - regular reciprocating motion (tremors)
• Dystonia - prolonged muscle spasms
• Myokymia - superficial, localized, wave-like muscle contraction

Plastics technology

In plastics technology , fibrillation describes the splitting off of thread-like fiber components largely parallel to the longitudinal axis of the fiber.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ weakness; Myopathy, Anterior Horn Cell Disease, Neuropathies and Neuromuscular Transmission Defects. (PDF) Retrieved February 26, 2018 . 
2. ↑ fibrillation . Dict CC
3. ↑ Marco Antonio Araujo Leite, Marco Orsini, Marcos RG de Freitas, João Santos Pereira, Fábio Henrique Porto Gobbi: Another Perspective on Fasciculations: When is it not Caused by the Classic form of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or Progressive Spinal Atrophy? In: Neurology International . tape 6 , no. 3 , August 5, 2014, ISSN  2035-8385 , p. 5208 , doi : 10.4081 / ni.2014.5208 , PMID 25309711 , PMC 4192433 (free full text).
4. ↑ S. Picht: Fibrillation - Problem or Opportunity? (PDF) In: Lenzinger Reports , 78/98; Retrieved June 12, 2009

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