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
Yet the systole and diastole of the heart are not without their analogy in the ebb and flow of love.
From Essays — First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
The rhythm of all music is the systole and diastole of the Sacred Heart, which is the ebb and flow of an infinite ocean.
From The Forgotten Threshold by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)
It was the systole and diastole of the Base.
From Leaves from a Field Note-Book by Morgan, John Hartman
