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Systole

noun

The contraction of the chambers of the heart (especially the ventricles) to drive blood into the aorta and pulmonary artery.

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"Systole" Quotes from Famous Books

... is bright red in colour, and escapes from the cardiac end of the divided vessel in pulsating jets synchronously with the systole of the heart. In vascular parts—for example the face—both ends of a divided artery bleed freely. The blood flowing from an artery may be dark in colour if the respiration is impeded. When the heart's ...

— Manual of Surgery - Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. • Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles

... though I think that, in my chair again, I might have argued my supplanters wrong In this or that—this Cesalpinus, say, With all his hot-foot blundering in the dark, Fabricius, with his over-cautious clutch On Galen (systole and diastole Of Truth's mysterious heart!)—yet, other ways, It may be that this dying serves the cause. For Truth stays not to build her monument For this or that co-operating hand, But props it with her servants' failures—nay, Cements its courses with their blood ...

— Artemis to Actaeon and Other Worlds • Edith Wharton

... form of the organic substances of his mind. What these changes and variations are and their nature will be explained now. Some idea of them may be obtained from the alternating expansions and compressions or dilations and contractions in the heart and lungs, called in the heart systole and diastole, and in the lungs respirations. These are reciprocal extensions and retractions or expansions and contractions of their lobes. Such are the changes and variations in the state of the heart and lungs. Such changes and variations occur in the other viscera of the body and ...

— Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence • Emanuel Swedenborg

Words linked to "Systole" : extrasystole, pulsation, beat, pulse, heartbeat