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Systole   Listen
noun
Systole  n.  
1.
(Gram.) The shortening of the long syllable.
2.
(Physiol. & Biol.) 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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"Systole" Quotes from Famous Books



... without these integuments, and even unless connected with them by bonds, they could not perform their vital functions. The spiritual things of the Word are like the breathing of the lungs, its celestial things are like the systole and diastole of the heart, and its natural things are like the pleura, the diaphragm, and the ribs, with the moving fibers attached, by which the ...
— Spiritual Life and the Word of God • Emanuel Swedenborg
... cultivate a feeling of restraint and leave the impression that he had much more in reserve. So it was in his literary work: he never wrote when tired, nor attempted to express when he was not thoroughly alive to the subject in hand. He watched his mood. And thus in all Macaulay's "Essays" we feel the systole and diastole, and the hot, strong, impatient movement of ruddy life. There is "go" in every sentence. This is what constitutes his marvelous ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 5 (of 14) • Elbert Hubbard


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


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