diastole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈæstəli/
Forms: form: diastoles
Etymology: From Ancient Greek διαστολή (diastolḗ, “separation, drawing asunder”), from διά (diá, “apart”) + στέλλειν (stéllein, “send”).
Senses: examples: text: […] 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.
ref: 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:
text: In patients with rapid rates, diastole may be sufficiently shortened that the third and fourth heart sounds become superimposed and form a summation gallop.
ref: 2005, Richard H. Vagelos, Rachel Marcus, J. Edwin Atwood, “35: Signs, Symptoms, and Laboratory Abnormalities in Cardiovascular Diseases”, in Robert M. Wachter, Lee Goldman, Harry Hollander, editors, Hospital Medicine, 2nd edition, page 309:
text: 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%.
ref: 2008, Jack H. Wilmore, David L. Costill, W. Larry Kenney, Physiology of Sport and Exercise, page 132:
text: 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].
ref: 2011, Julian Maizel, Michel Slama, “9: Hermodynamic Evaluation in the Patient with Arrhythmias”, in 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:
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glosses: 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.
examples: text: 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.
text: [A]ccording to prosody, this syllable has the diastole and the stress, whereas the second of “cujus” or of “animam” has not.
ref: 1841, Gottfried Weber, Godfrey Weber′s General Music Teacher, page 115:
text: Surely Goethe′s basic dichotomy of systole and diastole in the Divan poem[…].
ref: 2010, Jürgen Thym, Ann Clark Fehn, Of Poetry and Song: Approaches to the Nineteenth-Century Lied, page 46:
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glosses: The lengthening of a vowel or syllable beyond its typical length.
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glosses: The hypodiastole, a textual or punctuation mark formerly used to disambiguate homonyms in Greek.
Synonyms: topics: prosody
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word: ectasis
Derived terms: diastolic
peridiastole
protodiastole
telediastole
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