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Diastole   Listen
noun
Diastole  n.  
1.
(Physiol.) The rhythmical expansion or dilatation of the heart and arteries; correlative to systole, or contraction.
2.
(Gram.) A figure by which a syllable naturally short is made long.





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"Diastole" Quotes from Famous Books



... Sometimes the shallows are thickened with minute, transparent, crab-like organisms,—all colorless as gelatine. There are days also when countless medusae drift in—beautiful veined creatures that throb like hearts, with perpetual systole and diastole of their diaphanous envelops: some, of translucent azure or rose, seem in the flood the shadows or ghosts of huge campanulate flowers;—others have the semblance of strange living vegetables,—great milky tubers, just ...
— Chita: A Memory of Last Island • Lafcadio Hearn
... always a quicker motion, as other things are quickening. The Guillotine, by its speed of going, will give index of the general velocity of the Republic. The clanking of its huge axe, rising and falling there, in horrid systole-diastole, is portion of the whole enormous Life-movement and pulsation of the Sansculottic System!—'Orleans Conspirators' and Assaulters had to die, in spite of much weeping and entreating; so sacred is the person of a Deputy. Yet the sacred can become desecrated: ...
— The French Revolution • Thomas Carlyle


Words linked to "Diastole" :   heartbeat, diastolic, beat


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