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
It was the systole and diastole of the Base.
From Leaves from a Field Note-Book by Morgan, John Hartman
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
The great heart of Nature itself beats with a regular systole and diastole.
From Open Water by Stringer, Arthur
