systole and diastole
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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
And thus in all Macaulay's "Essays" we feel the systole and diastole, and the hot, strong, impatient movement of ruddy life.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors by Elbert Hubbard
Or, instead of this systole and diastole alternation, the glory and the pang are fused and interpenetrated in a continuous mood.
From Robert Browning by C. H. (Charles Harold) Herford
The truth is that there are two movements,—a systole and diastole of the spiritual life,—an expansion and a concentration.
From Christian Mysticism by William Ralph Inge
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