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
Some idea of them may be obtained from the alternating expansions and compressions or dilations and contractions in the heart and lungs, called in the heart systole and diastole, and in the lungs respirations.
From Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence by Wunsch, William F.
The heart’s systole and diastole; alternations of day and night, of season and tide, are reflected in the history of our race.
From Tales of Bengal by Banerjea, S. B.
It was the systole and diastole of the Base.
From Leaves from a Field Note-Book by Morgan, John Hartman
