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diastole
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Wikipedia
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Diastole is a genus of air-breathing land snails or semi- slugs , terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Helicarionidae .
Wiktionary
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n. 1 (context chiefly uncountable physiology English) The phase or process of relaxation and dilation of the heart chambers, between contractions, during which they fill with blood; an instance of the process. 2 (context uncountable prosody English) The ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Diastole \Di*as"to*le\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to put asunder, to separate; dia` through + ? to set, to place.] (Physiol.) The rhythmical expansion or dilatation of the heart and arteries; -- correlative to systole , or contraction. (Gram.) A figure by ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the widening of the chambers of the heart between two contractions when the chambers fill with blood
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, from medical Latin diastole , from Greek diastole "drawing asunder, dilation," from diastellein , from dia- "through, thoroughly, entirely" (see dia- ) + stellein "to set in order, arrange, array, equip, make ready," from PIE *stel-yo- , suffixed ...
Usage examples of 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.
So if the system was working correctly, she had reasoned, the onset of the long diastole should have immediately sent the heart monitor outside the expected range and triggered an alarm.