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

And thus in all Macaulay's "Essays" we feel the systole and diastole, and the hot, strong, impatient movement of ruddy life.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 05 Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors by Hubbard, Elbert

Yet the systole and diastole of the heart are not without their analogy in the ebb and flow of love.

From Essays — First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It was the systole and diastole of the Base.

From Leaves from a Field Note-Book by Morgan, John Hartman