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EnglishTHE SCHOLAR'S LEXICON

diastole

/dahy-as-tl-ee, -tl-ee/US // daɪˈæs tlˌi, -tl i //UK // (daɪˈæstəlɪ) //

舒张期,舒张,舒展期,舒展

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Physiology. the normal rhythmical dilatation of the heart during which the chambers are filling with blood.Compare systole.
    • : Prosody. the lengthening of a syllable regularly short, especially before a pause or at the ictus.

Examples

  • The ding of her husband's cash register and the click of her dangle bag mark the systole and diastole of married life.

  • The great secular heart is now in its diastole, or relaxation.

  • Systole and diastole, the contraction and dilation of the heart and arteries.

  • Their stomachs are like sackbuts, with systole and diastole;128 and thus they contract and expand them in a wonderful manner.

  • That the intrinsic motion of the heart is the systole, and not the diastole, as previously imagined.

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