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.
But let us approach it; let us lay it bare, and watch the systole and diastole, as it now receives and now pours forth the vital stream through all the members.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
Thus we trace the rhythmic beating of the pulse to the systole and diastole of the heart, and we note a similar alternation in the contraction and relaxation of all our muscles.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 by Runkle, Lucia Isabella Gilbert
