systole

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The diastole (filling) and systole (pumping) processes of a healthy human heart

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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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systole (plural systoles)

  1. (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.
  2. (prosody) A shortening of a naturally long vowel.
  3. (mathematics) The shortest noncontractible loop on a compact metric space.

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Etymology[edit]

From French systole, from Ancient Greek συστολή (sustolḗ), from συστέλλω (sustéllō, to contract).

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  • IPA(key): /sɪsˈtoː.lə/
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systole f (plural systoles)

  1. (physiology) systole

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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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systole f (plural systoles)

  1. (physiology) systole
    Antonym: diastole

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