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Contraction of the heart
Answer for the clue "Contraction of the heart ", 7 letters:
systole
Alternative clues for the word systole
- Heartbeat part
- Normal rhythmical contraction of the heart
- Rhythmic contraction of the heart
- Second before day's end took a heartbeat
- Part of the heart's work
- Rhythmic heart contraction
- The contraction of the chambers of the heart (especially the ventricles) to drive blood into the aorta and pulmonary artery
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 ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context physiology English) The rhythmic contraction of the heart, by which blood is driven through the arteries. 2 (context prosody English) A shortening of a naturally long vowel.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the contraction of the chambers of the heart (especially the ventricles) to drive blood into the aorta and pulmonary artery
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.