Definition of Flatline
Flatline
flat·line
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(verb)
To show no signs of activity or progress, especially on a medical monitor.
e.g. The patient's heart rate began to flatline, and the doctors rushed to revive him.
(verb)
to come up on an electronic monitor as having no brain waves or heartbeat and therefore to be dead;
e.g. He went into cardiac arrest and then flatlined.
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