Crossword clues for systolic
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Systole \Sys"to*le\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to contract; sy`n with + ? to set, place.]
(Gram.) The shortening of the long syllable.
(Physiol. & Biol.) The contraction of the heart and arteries by which the blood is forced onward and the circulation kept up; also, the contraction of a rhythmically pulsating contractile vacuole; -- correlative to diastole. -- Sys*tol"ic, a.
Systolic \Sys*tol"ic\, a.
Of or pertaining to systole, or contraction; contracting;
esp., relating to the systole of the heart; as, systolic
murmur.
--Dunglison.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, from Modern Latin systolicus, from Greek systole "a drawing together, contraction" (see systole).
Wiktionary
a. Pertaining to a systole or heart contraction.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to a systole or happing during a systole
Usage examples of "systolic".
Here, now, along the interstate, far from church and mother, but longing for both, sitting as straight-backed on a steel guardrail as ever she had sat on a choir bench, Jilly put one hand to her throat and felt the systolic throb in her right carotid artery.
Jilly put one hand to her throat and felt the systolic throb in her right carotid artery.
On the one hand, the contracting valve would hold the tree wedged more firmly than ever during the systolic phase.
They arrived at the station as the systolic backwash was beginning to be felt.
The heart: thrills, lifts, heaves, rubs, with a systolic ejection murmur at both sternal borders.
Here the peaks were smaller as the systolic pressure fell, and the pulsations began to trail downward, sliding toward the floor.
Strings of nacreous spheres curl in strange loops around a hidden core, expanding and turning inside out in systolic pulses that spawn waves of recomplication through the structure.
As the patient approaches death, the systolic blood pressure soars as high as 300.
The first figure is known as systolic blood pressure, and represents the peak pressure inside the artery corresponding to each contraction of the heart.
The sutured artery in the left wrist must have healed to the point -of handling very high systolic pressure, or - again -1 couldn't have got through the Kishnar thing.
He heard Cara and Jo, speaking terse, quiet phrases that David himself barely understood and Bakhtiian certainly could not understand: IV, anesthesia, transfusion, systolic pressure, basal temperature, placenta abruptio, antibody sensitization.