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Example sentences for "diastole"

Lexicographically close words:
dias; diastase; diastasic; diastatic; diastema; diastolic; diatement; diathesis; diatom; diatomaceous
  1. This change of the colour of the wall he well ascribes to the compression of the retina by the diastole of the artery.

  2. Suppose the diameter of the artery during its systole to be one line, and that the diameter of the same artery during its diastole is in health is four lines, and in a fever with, great debility only two lines.

  3. Before the great variety of animal motions can be duly arranged into natural classes and orders, it is necessary to smooth the way to this yet unconquered field of science, by removing some obstacles which thwart our passage.

  4. We can then exert our attention on other objects.

  5. So that during a fit of reverie that strange event happens to the whole system of nerves, which occurs only to some particular branches of them in those, who are a second time exposed to the action of contagious matter.

  6. And fifthly, because the apparent retrograde gyration of objects is produced, when there is no rolling of the eyeballs at all.

  7. Thus the palpitation of the heart continues some time after the object of fear, which occasioned it, is removed.

  8. He thinks it one of a class of remedies which act on the accelerator nerves and sympathetic ganglia, shortening the diastole and stimulating the spinal vasomotor nerve centers.

  9. Slowing of the heart, with systole and diastole both lengthened.

  10. Its watery ventricles were throbbing with the same systole and diastole as when, the blood of twenty years bounding in my own heart, I looked upon their giant mechanism.

  11. Defn: Preceding the diastole of the heart; as, a prediastolic friction sound.

  12. Defn: The almost inappreciable time which elapses between the systole and the diastole of the heart.

  13. Defn: The interval between the diastole and systole of the heart.

  14. On the commencement of the diastole of the ventricle, the semilunar valves are closed, and the aorta recoils by its elasticity so as to force part of its contents into the vessels farther onwards.

  15. The blood was driven alternately to and from the heart, being sucked into it during the diastole and driven from it during the systole.

  16. The heart hath two motions, Diastole and Systole.

  17. The almost inappreciable time which elapses between the systole and the diastole of the heart.

  18. The interval between the diastole and systole of the heart.

  19. The diastole of irritation is produced by a stimulus of the inhibitory ganglia, and only occurs after poisoning by the muscarine group of poisons.

  20. The diastole of paralysis is the most frequent form of death.

  21. If the animal under the influence of digitalin be treated with muscarine, it stops in diastole instead of systole.

  22. The final diastole may be the diastole of paralysis or the diastole of irritation.

  23. Whence the motion which is generally regarded as the diastole of the heart, is in truth its systole.

  24. And in like manner the intrinsic motion of the heart is not the diastole but the systole; neither is it in the diastole that the heart grows firm and tense, but in the systole, for then only, when tense, is it moved and made vigorous.

  25. And how should the semiluftars hinder the regress of spirits from the aorta upon each supervening diastole of the heart?

  26. Besides, how can their diastole draw spirits from the heart to warm the body and its parts, and means of cooling them from without?

  27. Further when it is affirmed that the diastole of the heart and arteries is simultaneous, and the systole of the two is also concurrent, there is another incongruity.

  28. And many brazen-beautiful faces softened for a moment, many pleasure-sodden hearts had a diastole of unaccustomed tenderness as the music pulsed to its close.

  29. Yet he felt as if he were sawing at the arm of a great doll, not a live thing in which blood still circulated and systole and diastole still kept the soul co-ordinate and co-incident.

  30. Nature outside man had taught him that life on all levels takes it course in a perpetual interplay of opposites, manifested externally in an interplay of diastole and systole comparable to the process of breathing.

  31. With each diastole it becomes more akin to the pole below, and with each systole more akin to the pole above.

  32. He considers the heart to be in ceaseless motion, alternately dilating and contracting, but the diastole is in his opinion the influential act of the organ.

  33. They, in fact, drew their charge from the heart, as the heart by its diastole drew its charge from the vena cava and the pulmonary vein.

  34. Mingled with the inspired air in the arteria venalis, freed by respiration from fuliginous matter, and become a suitable home of the vital spirit, it is attracted at length into the left ventricle of the heart by the diastole of the organ.

  35. For hence all the arteries of that organism draw their life, and on the systole and diastole of the Base, on the contractions and dilatations of its auricles and ventricles, the Army depends for its circulation.

  36. It was the systole and diastole of the Base.

  37. The third negative wave (Vf) appears during ventricular diastole and in the common pause of the heart chambers.

  38. In a rapidly beating heart the diastole is short and the diastolic pressure rises.

  39. The second negative wave (Af) occurs during the diastole of the auricle.

  40. The aortic valves close, and during diastole the blood is forced through the vascular system by the forcible, steady contraction of the highly elastic aorta.

  41. And in like manner the intrinsic motion of the heart is not the diastole but the systole; neither is it in the diastole that the heart grows firm and tense, but in the systole; for then alone when tense is it moved and made vigorous.

  42. Whence the motion, which is generally regarded as the diastole of the heart, is in truth its systole.

  43. But, one may ask oneself, how does that modified seething in the vena cava which produces the diastole of the right auricle produce the diastole, the simultaneous diastole, of the left auricle?

  44. The effect of the weak contraction is that of momentarily interrupting the even sweep of diastole after the strong contraction, and therefore the result on the tracing is a slight depression in the otherwise even curve of ascent.

  45. In these swimming movements, systole and diastole follow one another with as perfect a rhythm as they do in the beating of a heart.

  46. Yet the systole and diastole of the heart are not without their analogy in the ebb and flow of love.

  47. I heard myself today very near to the Heart of Silence, whose systole and diastole is the ebb and flow of Love from Eternity to Eternity.

  48. The rhythm of all music is the systole and diastole of the Sacred Heart, which is the ebb and flow of an infinite ocean.


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