different between synizesis vs diastole

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (suníz?sis, “a sitting together”).

Noun

synizesis (countable and uncountable, plural synizeses)

1. (poetry) A poetic figure of speech in which two consecutive vowel sounds in the same word are pronounced as a single phoneme so that certain words adhere to a particular poetic meter.
2. (prosody) The pronunciation of two separate vowels as a single one.
3. (medicine) An obliteration of the pupil of the eye.
4. (biology) Dense clumping of chromosomes on one side of the nucleus, sometimes occurring prior to cell division.

Translations

See also

• crasis

Further reading

• Synizesis (linguistic) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Synizesis (biology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (diastol?, “separation, drawing asunder”), from ??? (diá, “apart”) + ???????? (stéllein, “send”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da??æst?li/

Noun

diastole (usually uncountable, plural diastoles)

1. (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].

2. (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 […] .

3. (Greek grammar) The hypodiastole, a textual or punctuation mark formerly used to disambiguate homonyms in Greek.

Synonyms

• (prosody): ectasis

Antonyms

• (physiology): systole
• (prosody): systole

Derived terms

• diastolic

Translations

See also

• (prosody): caesura, synaeresis, synecphonesis, synizesis

Anagrams

• altoside, diolates, elastoid, isolated, sodalite, solidate

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French diastole, from Ancient Greek ???????? (diastol?, “separation, drawing asunder”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.a??sto?.l?/
• Hyphenation: di?as?to?le

Noun

diastole f (plural diastoles)

1. (physiology) diastole

Antonyms

• systole

Derived terms

• diastolisch

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???????? (diastol?, “separation, drawing asunder”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /djas.t?l/

Noun

diastole f (plural diastoles)

1. (physiology) diastole

Antonyms

• systole

Derived terms

• diastolique

Further reading

• “diastole” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• désolait, iodlâtes, sodalité

Italian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (diastol?, “separation, drawing asunder”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di?as.to.le/, /?djas.to.le/
• Hyphenation: di?à?sto?le

Noun

diastole f (plural diastoli)

1. (physiology) diastole

   Antonym: sistole

Derived terms

• diastolico

Anagrams

• desolati
• sdoliate
• stilodea

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (diastol?)

Noun

diastole m (definite singular diastolen, uncountable)

1. (physiology) diastole

Derived terms

• diastolisk

References

• “diastole” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (diastol?)

Noun

diastole m (definite singular diastolen, uncountable)

1. (physiology) diastole

Derived terms

• diastolisk