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 is a continual systole and diastole, an inspiration and an expiration of the living soul.
From Maxims and Reflections by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
It has had its systole and diastole of success; but, unlike Winchelsea, it has never given up the fight.
From Hastings and Neighbourhood by Higgins, Walter
It was the systole and diastole of the Base.
From Leaves from a Field Note-Book by Morgan, John Hartman
