diastole

From Ancient Greek διαστολή (diastolḗ, “separation, drawing asunder”), from διά (diá, “apart”) + στέλλειν (stéllein, “send”).

• IPA^(key): /daɪˈæstəli/

diastole (usually uncountable, plural diastoles)

1. (chiefly uncountable, physiology) The phase or process of relaxation and dilation of the heart chambers, between contractions, during which they fill with blood; an instance of the process.
   • 1653, William Harvey, “The Causes which Mov’d the Author to Write”, in [anonymous], transl., The Anatomical Exercises of Dr. William Harvey […] Concerning the Motion of the Heart and Blood. […], London: […] Francis Leach, for Richard Lownes […], →OCLC, pages 1–2:

     […] I did almoſt beleeve, that the motion of the Heart vvas knovvn to God alone: For neither could I rightly diſtinguiſh, vvhich vvay the Diaſtole and Systole came to be, nor vvhen nor vvhere the dilation and conſtriction had its exiſtence.

   • 2005, Richard H. Vagelos, Rachel Marcus, J. Edwin Atwood, 35: Signs, Symptoms, and Laboratory Abnormalities in Cardiovascular Diseases, Robert M. Wachter, Lee Goldman, Harry Hollander (editors), Hospital Medicine, 2nd Edition, page 309,

     In patients with rapid rates, diastole may be sufficiently shortened that the third and fourth heart sounds become superimposed and form a summation gallop.

   • 2008, Jack H. Wilmore; David L. Costill; W. Larry Kenney, Physiology of Sport and Exercise, page 132:

     Of the total cardiac cycle at this rate, diastole accounts for 0.50 s, or 62% of the cycle, and systole accounts for 0.31 s, or 38%.

   • 2011, Julian Maizel, Michel Slama, 9: Hermodynamic Evaluation in the Patient with Arrhythmias, Daniel de Backer, Bernard P. Cholley, Michel Slama, Antoine Vieillard-Baron, Philippe Vignon (editors), Hemodynamic Monitoring Using Echocardiography in the Critically Ill, Springer, page 90,

     During a short cycle or premature contraction, LV ejection begins before pressure in the aorta has completely decreased, and it remains higher than with longer diastoles [4, 5].

2. (uncountable, prosody) The lengthening of a vowel or syllable beyond its typical length.
   • 1815 March and June, On the Greek and Latin Accents, The Classical Journal, Volume XI, page 81,

     I have inserted diastole which is omitted in Putschius, an insertion which both the complement, and the subsequent text make necessary.

   • 1841, Gottfried Weber, Godfrey Weber′s General Music Teacher, page 115:

     [A]ccording to prosody, this syllable has the diastole and the stress, whereas the second of “cujus” or of “animam” has not.

   • 2010, Jürgen Thym; Ann Clark Fehn, Of Poetry and Song: Approaches to the Nineteenth-Century Lied, page 46:

     Surely Goethe′s basic dichotomy of systole and diastole in the Divan poem […] .

3. (Greek grammar) The hypodiastole, a textual or punctuation mark formerly used to disambiguate homonyms in Greek.

• (prosody): ectasis

• (physiology): systole
• (prosody): systole

• diastolic

• (prosody): caesura, synaeresis, synecphonesis, synizesis

• altoside, diolates, elastoid, isolated, sodalite, solidate

Borrowed from French diastole, from Ancient Greek διαστολή (diastolḗ, “separation, drawing asunder”).

• IPA^(key): /di.aːˈstoː.lə/

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• Hyphenation: di‧as‧to‧le

diastole f (plural diastoles)

1. (physiology) diastole

• systole

• diastolisch

Borrowed from Ancient Greek διαστολή (diastolḗ, “separation, drawing asunder”).

• IPA^(key): /djas.tɔl/

diastole f (plural diastoles)

1. (physiology) diastole

   Antonym: systole

• diastolique

• “diastole”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• désolait, iodlâtes, sodalité

From Ancient Greek διαστολή (diastolḗ, “separation, drawing asunder”).

• IPA^(key): /diˈa.sto.le/, /ˈdja.sto.le/
• Rhymes: -astole
• Hyphenation: di‧à‧sto‧le, dià‧sto‧le

diastole f (plural diastoli)

1. (physiology) diastole

   Antonym: sistole

• diastolico

• desolati, sdoliate, stilodea

From Ancient Greek διαστολή (diastolḗ).

diastole m (definite singular diastolen, uncountable)

1. (physiology) diastole

• diastolisk

• “diastole” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From Ancient Greek διαστολή (diastolḗ).

diastole m (definite singular diastolen, uncountable)

1. (physiology) diastole

• diastolisk