Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Alternately contracting and dilating, as the heart; pulsating.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Alternately contracting and dilating; capable of or resulting from systole and diastole; pulsatory: as, the systaltic action of the heart. Compare peristaltic.
Wiktionary
- adj. biology Capable of, or taking place by, alternate contraction and dilatation.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Physiol.) Capable of, or taking place by, alternate contraction and dilatation.
Etymologies
- Latin systalticus drawing together, from Ancient Greek. Compare sustaltic, systole. (Wiktionary)
- Late Latin systalticus, from Greek sustaltikos, from sustellein, to contract : sun-, syn- + stellein, to send; see stel- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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sabaton, sabbatarian, sabbulonarium, sabelline, sabin, sable, sabliere, sabot, sabretache, sabulous, saburration, saccade and 1593 more...
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Twitchy
The (not always so) smoovements; scattered, oscillating, jerky, and unpredictable.
palpitation, scravel, jactitate, pounce, wobble, vibrate, undulate, didder, effleurage, flail, ague, swerve and 169 more...
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whichbe Alternately contracting and dilating; pulsating. (from Phrontistery) May 23, 2008