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Diastole vs Telediastolic - What's the difference?

diastole | telediastolic |

As a noun diastole

is the phase or process of relaxation and dilation of the heart chambers, between contractions, during which they fill with blood; an instance of the process.

As an adjective telediastolic is

occurring towards the end of ventricular diastole.

diastole

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (chiefly, uncountable, physiology) The phase or process of relaxation and dilation of the heart chambers, between contractions, during which they fill with blood; an instance of the process.
  • * 2005 , Richard H. Vagelos, Rachel Marcus, J. Edwin Atwood, 35: Signs, Symptoms, and Laboratory Abnormalities in Cardiovascular Diseases'', Robert M. Wachter, Lee Goldman, Harry Hollander (editors), ''Hospital Medicine , 2nd Edition, page 309,
  • In patients with rapid rates, diastole may be sufficiently shortened that the third and fourth heart sounds become superimposed and form a summation gallop.
  • * 2008 , Jack H. Wilmore, David L. Costill, W. Larry Kenney, Physiology of Sport and Exercise , page 132,
  • Of the total cardiac cycle at this rate, diastole accounts for 0.50 s, or 62% of the cycle, and systole accounts for 0.31 s, or 38%.
  • * 2011 , Julian Maizel, Michel Slama, 9: Hermodynamic Evaluation in the Patient with Arrhythmias'', Daniel de Backer, Bernard P. Cholley, Michel Slama, Antoine Vieillard-Baron, Philippe Vignon (editors), ''Hemodynamic Monitoring Using Echocardiography in the Critically Ill , Springer, page 90,
  • During a short cycle or premature contraction, LV ejection begins before pressure in the aorta has completely decreased, and it remains higher than with longer diastoles [4, 5].
  • (uncountable, prosody) The lengthening of a vowel or syllable beyond its typical length.
  • * 1815 March and June, On the Greek and Latin Accents'', ''The Classical Journal , Volume XI, page 81,
  • I have inserted diastole which is omitted in Putschius, an insertion which both the complement, and the subsequent text make necessary.
  • * 1841 , Gottfried Weber, Godfrey Weber?s General Music Teacher , page 115,
  • according to prosody, this syllable has the diastole and the stress, whereas the second of “cujus''” or of “''animam ” has not.
  • * 2010 , Jürgen Thym, Ann Clark Fehn, Of Poetry and Song: Approaches to the Nineteenth-Century Lied , page 46,
  • Surely Goethe?s basic dichotomy of systole and diastole in the Divan poem.
  • (hypodiastole), a textual or punctuation mark formerly used to disambiguate homonyms in Greek.
  • Synonyms

    * (prosody) ectasis

    Antonyms

    * (physiology) systole * (prosody) systole

    Derived terms

    * diastolic

    See also

    * (prosody) caesura, synaeresis, synecphonesis, synizesis

    Anagrams

    * ----

    telediastolic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Occurring towards the end of ventricular diastole