Definitionn. the contraction of the chambers of the heart
Last update: September 2, 2015
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The systole is not altered in length, but the diastole is very much prolonged, and since this is the period not only of cardiac rest but also of cardiac "feeding" - the coronary vessels being compressed and occluded during systole - the result is greatly to benefit the nutrition of the cardiac muscle. [Please select]
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Diastole: that regular expansion of the heart that draws the blood inward: see systole. [Please select]
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Systole: that regular contraction of the heart that sends the blood outward: see diastole. [Please select]
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But hidden away was a heart that behaved in a highly unprofessional manner, and sang and dreamed, and jumped at the sight of a certain small figure on the street, and generally played hob with systole and diastole, and the vagus and accelerator nerves. [Please select]
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And so, [39] in the great events of man's life and in the small, as in the mighty circle of the heavens, good and evil, life and death, growth and decay, are but the systole and diastole, the outward and inward pulsation, of an eternal good, an eternal harmony. [Please select]
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