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Phase of a heartbeat
Answer for the clue "Phase of a heartbeat ", 7 letters:
systole
Alternative clues for the word systole
- Heart contraction
- It takes place in a heartbeat
- The contraction of the chambers of the heart (especially the ventricles) to drive blood into the aorta and pulmonary artery
- Part of a blood pressure reading
- Society's outsiders moved quietly in a heartbeat
- Part of the heart's work
- Rhythmic contraction of the heart
- Part of a heartbeat
Word definitions for systole in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Systole may refer to: Systole (medicine) , a term describing the contraction of the heart Systolic array , a term used in computer architecture Systolic geometry , a term used in mathematics In mathematics, Systoles of surfaces are systolic inequalities ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"periodic contraction of the heart and arteries," 1570s, from Greek systole "a drawing together, contraction," from syn- "together" (see syn- ) + stem related to stellein "to bring together, draw in; to put, set, place" (see diastole ).
Usage examples of systole.
Its watery ventricles were throbbing with the same systole and diastole as when, the blood of twenty years bounding in my own heart, I looked upon their giant mechanism.
I focused all my attention on the melody, and again noticed that the systole and diastole of my heart coincided with the sound of the bass drum, and with the pattern of the music.
Nature outside man had taught him that life on all levels takes it course in a perpetual interplay of opposites, manifested externally in an interplay of diastole and systole comparable to the process of breathing.
With each diastole it becomes more akin to the pole below, and with each systole more akin to the pole above.
To be relaxed is good if it is part of a process of systole and diastole.
Nature outside man had taught him that life on all levels takes it course in a perpetual interplay of opposites, manifested externally in an interplay of diastole and systole comparable to the process of breathing.
Its watery ventricles were throbbing with the same systole and diastole as when, the blood of twenty years bounding in my own heart, I looked upon their giant mechanism.
His heart seemed to handle the added stress without any trouble-no arrhythmia, no extra systoles, and nothing that could be traced to clogged cerebral vessels.