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

In all the storm and stress, a rhythmic motion, a systole and diastole, a surging to and fro, as of vast masses of beings in the last extremity of peril, is apparent.

From Beethoven by Fischer, George Alexander

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 Herford, C. H. (Charles Harold)

The phrase systole and diastole is now applied to the alternate contraction and expansion of the heart; San Agustin apparently uses it through fondness for a learned phrase.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Blair, Emma Helen