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Diastole   /daɪˈæstəlˌi/   Listen
Diastole

noun
1.
The widening of the chambers of the heart between two contractions when the chambers fill with blood.





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"Diastole" Quotes from Famous Books



... pouring forth from the garden, the pure young tenors and altos weaving their melodies like network over the sustained, vibrating, vigorous bass voices. It was the antiphony of the youthful promenaders to the drinkers, the diastole of the heart above the stomach, the elisire d'amore in rivalry with beer. Amid this scene I recognized my waiter, illuminated fitfully like some extraordinary firefly as he sprang into sight beneath the successive ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 • Various


Words linked to "Diastole" :   beat, heartbeat, pulsation, diastolic, pulse


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