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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from New Latin, from Ancient Greek συστολή (sustolḗ), from συστέλλω (sustéllō, “to contract”), from σύν (sún, “together”) + στέλλω (stéllō, “to send”).
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Noun[edit]
systole (plural systoles)
- (physiology) The rhythmic contraction of the heart, by which blood is driven through the arteries.
- 1653, William Harvey, “The Causes which Mov’d the Author to Write”, in [anonymous], transl., The Anatomical Exercises of Dr. William Harvey […] Concerning the Motion of the Heart and Blood. […], London: […] Francis Leach, for Richard Lownes […], →OCLC, pages 1–2:
- […] I did almoſt beleeve, that the motion of the Heart vvas knovvn to God alone: For neither could I rightly diſtinguiſh, vvhich vvay the Diaſtole and Systole came to be, nor vvhen nor vvhere the dilation and conſtriction had its exiſtence.
- 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, pages 78–9:
- A double systole catapulted him into full consciousness again, and he promised his uncorrected self that he would limit his daily ration of cigarettes to a couple of heartbeats.
- 1974, Anthony Burgess, The Clockwork Testament:
- There is no essential virtue in comfort. To be relaxed is good if it is part of a process of systole and diastole. Relaxation comes between phases of tenseness.
- (prosody) A shortening of a naturally long vowel.
- (mathematics) The shortest noncontractible loop on a compact metric space.
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- (prosody): metaplasm
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Translations[edit]
contraction of the heart
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Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French systole, from Ancient Greek συστολή (sustolḗ), from συστέλλω (sustéllō, “to contract”).
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systole f (plural systoles)
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from New Latin, from Ancient Greek συστολή (sustolḗ), from συστέλλω (sustéllō, “to contract”), from σύν (sún, “together”) + στέλλω (stéllō, “to send”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
systole f (plural systoles)
- (physiology) systole
- Antonym: diastole
Further reading[edit]
- “systole”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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