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1. n. absence of systole; failure of the ventricles of the heart to contract (usually caused by ventricular fibrillation) with consequent absence of the heart beat leading to oxygen lack and eventually to death Source: wordnet

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absence heart beat caused consequent contract death eventually failure fibrillation lack leading oxygen systole ventricles ventricular

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