diastole
/dahy-as-tl-ee, -tl-ee/US // daɪˈæs tlˌi, -tl i //UK // (daɪˈæstəlɪ) //
舒张期,舒张,舒展期,舒展
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : Physiology. the normal rhythmical dilatation of the heart during which the chambers are filling with blood.Compare systole.
- : Prosody. the lengthening of a syllable regularly short, especially before a pause or at the ictus.
Examples
The ding of her husband's cash register and the click of her dangle bag mark the systole and diastole of married life.
The great secular heart is now in its diastole, or relaxation.
Systole and diastole, the contraction and dilation of the heart and arteries.
Their stomachs are like sackbuts, with systole and diastole;128 and thus they contract and expand them in a wonderful manner.
That the intrinsic motion of the heart is the systole, and not the diastole, as previously imagined.
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