systole

How To Use systole In A Sentence

• Some patients have asystole from the onset of arrest and are unsuitable for defibrillation by the ambulance crew or bystanders.
• During systole, the rise from left ventricular end-diastole pressure to end-aortic diastolic pressure is decreased; thus the aortic valve opens earlier and stays open longer.
• But she was one of those satisfactory creatures whose intercourse has the charm of discovery; whose integrity of faculty and expression begets a wish to know what they will say on all subjects or how they will perform whatever they undertake; so that they end by raising not only a continual expectation but a continual sense of fulfillment -- the systole and diastole of blissful companionship. Daniel Deronda
• There was no significant correlation between the frequency of extrasystoles, either supraventricular or ventricular, and oxygen saturation values.
• Younger people have a highly distensible aorta, which expands during systole and minimises any subsequent rise in blood pressure.
• Younger people have a highly distensible aorta, which expands during systole and minimises any subsequent rise in blood pressure.
• To describe a single extrasystole, an ectopic heartbeat, as like a slight stumble in a dance and to introduce the complex mechanism of hearing with the statement that 'every one of us has a tiny harp inside his ear' suggests that he is a skillful teacher.… The kathartai, forerunners of doctors in pre-Hippocratic Greece, were said to purify the soul by the soothing and calming combination of music, dance, poetry and song. The Chicago Blog: April 2006 Archives
• Anyway, my new words: extrasystole as in “He asked me if it was like an extrasystole.” My Vocabulary Expands Again « So Many Books
• A proportion of patients are unsuitable for defibrillation because their initial arrhythmia is asystole or pulseless electrical activity.
• The final one is asystole, where there is a total flatline on the heart trace. Times, Sunday Times