flatline

['flætlain]
  • n. (心脑电图呈现的)平线
  • vi. 死亡

英文词源


flatline (v.)
"give no indication of life, cease to function," by 1998, from the flat (adj.) line (n.) on an electrocardiogram or electroencephalogram when the patient is dead. Related: Flatlined; flatlining.

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