DIASTOLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does diastole mean? 

• DIASTOLE (noun)
  The noun DIASTOLE has 1 sense:

1. the widening of the chambers of the heart between two contractions when the chambers fill with blood

  Familiarity information: DIASTOLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIASTOLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The widening of the chambers of the heart between two contractions when the chambers fill with blood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("diastole" is a kind of...):

beat; heartbeat; pulsation; pulse (the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart)

Derivation:

diastolic (of or relating to a diastole or happening during a diastole)

 Context examples 

The diameter across the ventricle at the end of diastole, excluding the thickness of the walls.

(Left Ventricle Dimension at End-Diastole, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)

Imaged ventricular blood pool capacity within the endocardial surface in a gated scan during the time of diastole.

(End Diastolic Volume Imaging, NCI Thesaurus)

Impairment in the filling of the ventricles during diastole.

(Diastolic Dysfunction, NCI Thesaurus)