Flatliner
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Flatliner is a noun meaning (fishing) An angler who uses a flatline.
Meaning
(fishing) An angler who uses a flatline.
More Meanings
- (rare) A patient with no heartbeat.
Example Sentences
[…]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.
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 defibrillate the heart.
Word Forms
- flatliners
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include flatline, pulselessness, deathling, deadheader, lunglessness, nonperfusion.
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