SYSTOLE
\sˈɪstə͡ʊl], \sˈɪstəʊl], \s_ˈɪ_s_t_əʊ_l]\
Definitions of SYSTOLE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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The shortening of the long syllable.
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The contraction of the heart and arteries by which the blood is forced onward and the circulation kept up; also, the contraction of a rhythmically pulsating contractile vacuole; - correlative to diastole.
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The contraction of the heart and arteries by which the blood is forced onward and the circulation kept up; also, the contraction of a rhythmically pulsating contractile vacuole; - correlative to diastole.
By Noah Webster.
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Period of contraction of the heart, especially of the ventricles.
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By William R. Warner
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A bringing together or contraction of the heart for expelling the blood: (gram.) the shortening of a long syllable.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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The contraction of the heart causing the circulation of the blood; contraction of any contractile cavity.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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The period of the heart's contraction; also the contraction itself.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Contraction; especially that of the walls of the heart, occurring alternately with their diastole. See also diastole.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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