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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



... city. All the lesser staccato noises of the day had long since died to silence; there only remained that prolonged and sullen diapason, coming from all quarters at once. It was like the breathing of some infinitely great monster, alive and palpitating, the sistole and diastole of some gigantic heart. The whole existence of the great slumbering city passed upward there before him through the still night air in ...
— Vandover and the Brute • Frank Norris


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


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