systole

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Examples from literature

Contraction or systole is followed by a pause or diastole during which the blood flows from the veins into the auricles. 
Later in its action, the drug depresses the intra-cardiac motor ganglia, causing prolongation of diastole and finally arrest of the heart in dilatation. 
Nature outside man had taught him that life on all levels takes it course in a perpetual interplay of opposites, manifested externally in an interplay of diastole and systole comparable to the process of breathing. 
This change of the colour of the wall he well ascribes to the compression of the retina by the diastole of the artery. 
Thus we trace the rhythmic beating of the pulse to the systole and diastole of the heart, and we note a similar alternation in the contraction and relaxation of all our muscles. 

diastole | American Dictionary

diastole
noun[ C ]
us/dɑɪˈæs·tə·li/
biology
the part of a heart’s action during which it fills with blood

Examples of diastole

diastole
The duration of the regurgitant flow varied but in no valves did it occupy the whole systole or diastole.
Patients having transannular patches, therefore, were classified into two groups according to the velocities of forward flow in the pulmonary arteries during late diastole.
Flow in die descending aorta was abnormal, with retrograde flow in diastole at die level of the diaphragm.
The horizontally-hatched area is the pressure generated during cardiac ejection, while the vertically-hatched area is the pressure maintained during the diastole.
For calculation of ejection fraction, the largest and smallest ventricular areas were taken as diastole and systole respectively.
The maximum and minimum diameter of the infundibulum at the hinge point of the leaflets were obtained from different frames during diastole and systole.
The peak velocities during left ventricular systole and diastole, their ratio, as well as of the reverse flow at end-diastole were calculated.
Those factors reducing aortic diastolic pressure, or shortening diastole, will compromise this flow.
The jet was greatest during ventricular systole and was not seen during diastole.
Velocities and integrals of forward flow in systole, early diastole and late diastole were measured; as was duration of pulmonary regurgitation.
In young persons with compliant arteries, this wave arrives back to the aorta in diastole.
As the ring is circumferential, it impedes the opening of the leaflet during diastole.
Thus, early diastolic left ventricularfillingis impaired with redistribution of filling to late diastole and increased dependence on atrial systole.
Inspiration, marked as an upward deflection on the respirometer, leads to marked augmentation of the passive forward flow during diastole.
Velocities were lower than 200 cm/sec and never occupied die whole systole or diastole.
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