"flatliner" meaning in English

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        "An angler who uses a flatline."
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        "(fishing) An angler who uses a flatline."
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          "text": "[…]unless my heart stops, okay? Nada — unless I'm a flatliner.\"",
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          "text": "In spite of his dramatic highs and the canyon lows, Kurt was a flatliner—a patient with no heartbeat.",
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          "text": "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.",
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        "A patient with no heartbeat."
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        "(rare) A patient with no heartbeat."
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