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flatliner
noun 2
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3ADJ.
patient
PREP.
with
ADV.
occasionally
Definitions
noun
1
An angler who uses a flatline.
2
A patient with no heartbeat.
[…]unless my heart stops, okay? Nada — unless I'm a flatliner."
In spite of his dramatic highs and the canyon lows, Kurt was a flatliner—a patient with no heartbeat.
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[…]unless my heart stops, okay? Nada — unless I'm a flatliner."
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In spite of his dramatic highs and the canyon lows, Kurt was a flatliner—a patient with no heartbeat.
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Though occasionally a “flatliner” can be revived with a defib, it is most commonly used to change the uncoordinated contractions of the heart (fibrillation) into a normal sinus rhythm—that is, to defi
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