systole
See also: Systole
English
The diastole (filling) and systole (pumping) processes of a healthy human heart
Etymology
Borrowed from New Latin, from Ancient Greek συστολή (sustolḗ), from συστέλλω (sustéllō, “to contract”), from σύν (sún, “together”) + στέλλω (stéllō, “to send”).
Noun
systole (plural systoles)
- (physiology) The rhythmic contraction of the heart, by which blood is driven through the arteries.
- 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.
- 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill, published 1972, pages 78–9:
- A double systole catapulted him into full consciousness again, and he promised his uncorrected self that he would limit his daily ration of cigarettes to a couple of heartbeats.
- 1974, Anthony Burgess, The Clockwork Testament:
- There is no essential virtue in comfort. To be relaxed is good if it is part of a process of systole and diastole. Relaxation comes between phases of tenseness.
- (prosody) A shortening of a naturally long vowel.
- (mathematics) The shortest noncontractible loop on a compact metric space.
Antonyms
Hypernyms
- (prosody): metaplasm
Translations
contraction of the heart
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Dutch
Etymology
From French systole, from Ancient Greek συστολή (sustolḗ), from συστέλλω (sustéllō, “to contract”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɪsˈtoː.lə/
Audio (file)
Antonyms
Finnish
Etymology
Ancient Greek συστολή (sustolḗ)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsystole(ː)/, [ˈs̠ys̠to̞le̞(ː)]
- Rhymes: -ystole
- Syllabification(key): sys‧to‧le
Declension
| Inflection of systole (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | systole | systolet | ||
| genitive | systolen | systolejen | ||
| partitive | systolea | systoleja | ||
| illative | systoleen | systoleihin | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | systole | systolet | ||
| accusative | nom. | systole | systolet | |
| gen. | systolen | |||
| genitive | systolen | systolejen systoleinrare | ||
| partitive | systolea | systoleja | ||
| inessive | systolessa | systoleissa | ||
| elative | systolesta | systoleista | ||
| illative | systoleen | systoleihin | ||
| adessive | systolella | systoleilla | ||
| ablative | systolelta | systoleilta | ||
| allative | systolelle | systoleille | ||
| essive | systolena | systoleina | ||
| translative | systoleksi | systoleiksi | ||
| abessive | systoletta | systoleitta | ||
| instructive | — | systolein | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from New Latin, from Ancient Greek συστολή (sustolḗ), from συστέλλω (sustéllō, “to contract”), from σύν (sún, “together”) + στέλλω (stéllō, “to send”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sis.tɔl/
Audio (file)
Further reading
- “systole”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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