systole and diastole
Example Sentences
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Both the atria and ventricles undergo systole and diastole, and it is essential that these components be carefully regulated and coordinated to ensure blood is pumped efficiently to the body.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
It is the very presence of its past that seems to determine the shape of Italian modernism: a systole and diastole between innovation and tradition.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some idea of them may be obtained from the alternating expansions and compressions or dilations and contractions in the heart and lungs, called in the heart systole and diastole, and in the lungs respirations.
From Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence by Wunsch, William F.
Is this systole and diastole of the affection from sense to spirit, from spirit to sense, peculiarly characteristic of English poets?
From The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years by Atkins, Elizabeth
The great heart of Nature itself beats with a regular systole and diastole.
From Open Water by Stringer, Arthur
