systole

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This was a double bruit accompanying systole, and entirely obscuring the physical signs.

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  1. noun The rhythmic contraction of the heart, especially of the ventricles, by which blood is driven through the aorta and pulmonary artery after each dilation or diastole.

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  • Ejection clicks - heard in early systole, may signify aortic valve dysfunction 6. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • During systole, the hypertrophied muscle in the outflow tract often narrows this region sufficiently to produce obstruction to left ventricular ejection. —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • Sometimes the Korotkoff sounds may become inaudible after systole, then reappear, then disappear again at true diastole. —  EMSResponder.com: Top EMS News
  • The amoeba, in all probability, performs essentially the same chemical process as we have summarised in Sections 10, 11, 12; it ingests food, digests it in the food vacuoles and builds it up into its body protoplasm, to undergo kataboly and furnish the force of its motion-- the contractile vacuole, is probably respiratory and perhaps excretory, accumulating and then, by its "systole" (compare Section 44), forcing out of its body, the water, carbon dioxide, urea, and other katastases, which are formed concomitantly with its activity. —  Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
  • Presently, however, the back resistance of the filled dorsal aorta rises above this, and the last flow of blood, from the ventricular systole-- almost purely oxygenated blood for the left auricle-- goes on towards the head Section 9. —  Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
 

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  1. Greek sustolē, contraction, from sustellein, to contract; see systaltic.

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  1. = French systole = Spanish sístole = Portuguese systole = Italian sistole, from New Latin systole, from Greek συσ, σ1τολή, a drawing together, a contraction, a shortening, from συσ, σ1τέλλειν, draw together, contract, from σύν, together, + στέλλειν, set, place. Cf. systaltic, diastole.
 

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