Systole is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SYSTOLE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the normal rhythmic contraction of the heart
• the phase of the heartbeat when the heart muscle contracts and pumps blood from the chambers into the arteries.
• regular contraction of the heart as it pumps blood
• The shortening of the long syllable.
• The contraction of the heart and arteries by which the blood is forced onward and the circulation kept up; -- correlative to diastole.
• the contraction of the chambers of the heart (especially the ventricles) to drive blood into the aorta and pulmonary artery

Words related to SYSTOLE

systoles11 systolic13

Words that contain SYSTOLE

asystole11 systoles11 asystoles12 extrasystole22 extrasystoles23

How to use SYSTOLE in a sentence

• Its watery ventricles were throbbing with the same systole and diastole as when, the blood of twenty years bounding in my own heart, I looked upon their giant mechanism.
• 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.
• In all the storm and stress, a rhythmic motion, a systole and diastole, a surging to and fro, as of vast masses of beings in the last extremity of peril, is apparent.
• Diastole and Systole are not mere arbitrary processes.
• Contraction or systole is followed by a pause or diastole during which the blood flows from the veins into the auricles.

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