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Diastole   Listen
noun
Diastole  n.  
1.
(Physiol.) The rhythmical expansion or dilatation of the heart and arteries; correlative to systole, or contraction.
2.
(Gram.) A figure by which a syllable naturally short is made long.





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"Diastole" Quotes from Famous Books



... No sperm at hand, or effective enough to penetrate that wandering ovum. Love's labour's lost. All must return to the so-called normal, really the intermenstrual state. The womb must surrender some of that blood, the glands return to their routine, and a sex diastole of the whole organism succeeds. Until again, another follicle swells, another ovum matures, and the premenstrual state of ...
— The Glands Regulating Personality • Louis Berman, M.D.


Words linked to "Diastole" :   beat, pulsation, heartbeat


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