Diastole
Pronunciation
- IPA: /'daɪæstɒli/
Origin
From Ancient Greek διαστολή (diastolÄ“, "separation, drawing asunder"), from διά (dia, "apart") + στÎλλειν (stellein, "send").
Full definition of diastole
Noun
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, %22diastoles%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=DIPuBvnvTK&sig=vDVScxSkhlgTxgX264A8rzP5Zng&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ReJaUOfzGsvKmgXl0YDoCg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22diastole%22|%22diastoles%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false 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, %22diastoles%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=y5ihvx_RCn&sig=eaqquxYemgWbyn-3aCJturNRb9I&hl=en&sa=X&ei=qNlaUNbRDvCdiAe-wYCwDw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22diastole%22|%22diastoles%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false 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, %22diastoles%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=jowIl5e8Vk&sig=aa-9Tr6cKqB6od7UihTZfbpkLlk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=qNlaUNbRDvCdiAe-wYCwDw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22diastole%22|%22diastoles%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false 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 5.
- (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, %22diastoles%22+prosody+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=GzbazPpd2b&sig=pxo0O50uAIZXZAKX8hFHoRAioC0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=m_1aUKbPJPHOmAWT9IGYAw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22diastole%22|%22diastoles%22%20prosody%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false 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, %22diastoles%22+prosody+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=sSd_q0q_Qs&sig=hhAcYN_6X3IyLBKpzzh7xDJTWjA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=m_1aUKbPJPHOmAWT9IGYAw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22diastole%22|%22diastoles%22%20prosody%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false 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, %22diastoles%22+prosody+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=6tdxtkRLNk&sig=2wWhy9U6DX_40zs4pkfnyxUGgZU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1gdbUO-APcvjmAW36IHYBA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22diastole%22|%22diastoles%22%20prosody%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 46,Surely Goethe′s basic dichotomy of systole and diastole in the Divan poem....
Synonyms
- (prosody) ectasis