diastole
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Ancient Greek διαστολή (diastolē, “separation, drawing asunder”), from διά (dia, “apart”) + στέλλειν (stellein, “send”).
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /'daɪæstɒli/
Noun [edit]
diastole (usually uncountable; plural diastoles)
- (chiefly uncountable, physiology) 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.
- 2005, Richard H. Vagelos, Rachel Marcus, J. Edwin Atwood, 35: Signs, Symptoms, and Laboratory Abnormalities in Cardiovascular Diseases, Robert M. Wachter, Lee Goldman, Harry Hollander (editors), Hospital Medicine, 2nd Edition, page 309,
- In patients with rapid rates, diastole may be sufficiently shortened that the third and fourth heart sounds become superimposed and form a summation gallop.
- 2008, Jack H. Wilmore, David L. Costill, W. Larry Kenney, Physiology of Sport and Exercise, page 132,
- Of the total cardiac cycle at this rate, diastole accounts for 0.50 s, or 62% of the cycle, and systole accounts for 0.31 s, or 38%.
- 2011, Julian Maizel, Michel Slama, 9: Hermodynamic Evaluation in the Patient with Arrhythmias, Daniel de Backer, Bernard P. Cholley, Michel Slama, Antoine Vieillard-Baron, Philippe Vignon (editors), Hemodynamic Monitoring Using Echocardiography in the Critically Ill, Springer, page 90,
- During a short cycle or premature contraction, LV ejection begins before pressure in the aorta has completely decreased, and it remains higher than with longer diastoles [4, 5].
- 2005, Richard H. Vagelos, Rachel Marcus, J. Edwin Atwood, 35: Signs, Symptoms, and Laboratory Abnormalities in Cardiovascular Diseases, Robert M. Wachter, Lee Goldman, Harry Hollander (editors), Hospital Medicine, 2nd Edition, page 309,
- (uncountable, prosody) The lengthening of a vowel or syllable beyond its typical length.
- 1815 March and June, On the Greek and Latin Accents, The Classical Journal, Volume XI, page 81,
- I have inserted diastole which is omitted in Putschius, an insertion which both the complement, and the subsequent text make necessary.
- 1841, Gottfried Weber, Godfrey Weber′s General Music Teacher, page 115,
- […] according to prosody, this syllable has the diastole and the stress, whereas the second of “cujus” or of “animam” has not.
- 2010, Jürgen Thym, Ann Clark Fehn, Of Poetry and Song: Approaches to the Nineteenth-Century Lied, page 46,
- Surely Goethe′s basic dichotomy of systole and diastole in the Divan poem […] .
- 1815 March and June, On the Greek and Latin Accents, The Classical Journal, Volume XI, page 81,
Synonyms [edit]
- (prosody): ectasis
Antonyms [edit]
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See also [edit]
- (prosody): caesura, synaeresis, synecphonesis, synizesis
Translations [edit]
relaxation of the heart
Anagrams [edit]
Dutch [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /di.aː.ˈstoː.lə/
Etymology [edit]
From Ancient Greek διαστολή (diastolē, “separation, drawing asunder”).
Noun [edit]
diastole f (plural diastoles)
Antonyms [edit]
French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Ancient Greek διαστολή (diastolē, “separation, drawing asunder”).
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /djastɔl/
Noun [edit]
diastole f (plural diastoles)
Derived terms [edit]
Antonyms [edit]
Anagrams [edit]
Italian [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Ancient Greek διαστολή (diastolē, “separation, drawing asunder”).
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
diastole f (plural diastoli)
Antonyms [edit]
Derived terms [edit]
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