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diastole
[ dahy-as-tl-ee, -tl-ee ]
noun
- Physiology. the normal rhythmical dilatation of the heart during which the chambers are filling with blood. Compare systole ( def 1 ).
- Prosody. the lengthening of a syllable regularly short, especially before a pause or at the ictus.
diastole
/ ˌdaɪəˈstɒlɪk; daɪˈæstəlɪ /
noun
- the dilatation of the chambers of the heart that follows each contraction, during which they refill with blood Compare systole
diastole
/ ī-ă′ə-ŧ /
- The period during the normal beating of the heart in which the chambers of the heart dilate and fill with blood. Diastole of the atria occurs before diastole of the ventricles.
- Compare systole
Derived Forms
- diastolic, adjective
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of diastole1
Example Sentences
He has a feeling for the systole and diastole, the contraction and release, of a body’s mechanisms.
And those who prefer not to follow fads at all need only wait a while: much of today’s playful punctuation will soon become unfashionable, dead as the diastole and the diple.
By prolonging the cardiac diastole and contracting the arterioles it allows the left ventricle to fill, restores the arterial tension, diminishes correspondingly the intravenous pressure, and promotes absorption.
It arrests the heart in diastole, the organ afterwards contracts slowly—possibly in rapid rigor mortis.
He fails to create an ideal world in which both tragedy and comedy are necessary to the spiritual order, as are the systole and diastole of the heart to an organised being.
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