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
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 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.
By Oddity Software
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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.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The rhythmical contraction of the heart, especially of the ventricles, by which the blood is driven through the aorta and pulmonary artery to traverse the systemic and pulmonary circulations, respectively; its occurrence is indicated physically by the first sound of the heart heard on auscultation, by the apex beat felt in the fifth intercostal space to the left of the sternum, and by the swelling of the pulse.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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 shortening of a long syllable; the contraction of the heart and arteries for expelling the blood and carrying on the circulation.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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In gram., the shortening of a long syllable; in med., the contraction of the heart and arteries for expelling the blood and carrying on the circulation.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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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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