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
But let us approach it; let us lay it bare, and watch the systole and diastole, as it now receives and now pours forth the vital stream through all the members.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
The heart’s systole and diastole; alternations of day and night, of season and tide, are reflected in the history of our race.
From Tales of Bengal by Banerjea, S. B.
It is a continual systole and diastole, an inspiration and an expiration of the living soul.
From Maxims and Reflections by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
