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
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
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 Edmund Burke
It has had its systole and diastole of success; but, unlike Winchelsea, it has never given up the fight.
From Hastings and Neighbourhood by Walter Higgins
