different between systole vs asystole

English

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin, from Ancient Greek ??????? (sustol?), from ???????? (sustéll?, “to contract”), from ??? (sún, “together”) + ?????? (stéll?, “to send”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?s?st?li/
• Homophone: sisterly (in non-rhotic accents)

Noun

systole (plural systoles)

1. (physiology) The rhythmic contraction of the heart, by which blood is driven through the arteries.
   • 1972, Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, McGraw-Hill 1972, pp. 78-9:

     A double systole catapulted him into full consciousness again, and he promised his uncorrected self that he would limit his daily ration of cigarettes to a couple of heartbeats.

   • 1974, Anthony Burgess, The Clockwork Testament:

     There is no essential virtue in comfort. To be relaxed is good if it is part of a process of systole and diastole. Relaxation comes between phases of tenseness.

2. (prosody) A shortening of a naturally long vowel.
3. (mathematics) The shortest noncontractible loop on a compact metric space.

Antonyms

• diastole

Hypernyms

• (prosody): metaplasm

Derived terms

• asystole
• systolic

Translations

Anagrams

• tolseys, toyless, tyloses

Dutch

Etymology

From French systole, from Ancient Greek ??????? (sustol?), from ???????? (sustéll?, “to contract”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?s?to?.l?/

Noun

systole f (plural systoles)

1. (physiology) systole

Antonyms

• diastole

French

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin, from Ancient Greek ??????? (sustol?), from ???????? (sustéll?, “to contract”), from ??? (sún, “together”) + ?????? (stéll?, “to send”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sis.t?l/

Noun

systole f (plural systoles)

1. (physiology) systole

Antonyms

• diastole

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

a- +? systole.

Noun

asystole (plural asystoles)

1. (pathology, cardiology) Absence of systole; failure of the heart to contract.

Synonyms

• cardiac arrest
• cardiopulmonary arrest
• flatline

Derived terms

• asystolic
• asystolism

Translations