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Diastole   Listen
noun
Diastole  n.  
1.
(Physiol.) The rhythmical expansion or dilatation of the heart and arteries; correlative to systole, or contraction.
2.
(Gram.) A figure by which a syllable naturally short is made long.





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"Diastole" Quotes from Famous Books



... nature will be explained now. Some idea of them may be obtained from the alternating expansions and compressions or dilations and contractions in the heart and lungs, called in the heart systole and diastole, and in the lungs respirations. These are reciprocal extensions and retractions or expansions and contractions of their lobes. Such are the changes and variations in the state of the heart and lungs. Such changes and variations occur in the other viscera of the body and in their parts, too, by which ...
— Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence • Emanuel Swedenborg


Words linked to "Diastole" :   beat, pulse


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