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Definition: Asystole |
AsystoleNoun1. Absence of systole; failure of the ventricles of the heart to contract (usually caused by ventricular fibrillation) with consequent absence of the heart beat leading to oxygen lack and eventually to death. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Asystole \A*sys"to*le\, noun. [Prefix a- not systole.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Cardiac standstill or arrest; absence of a heartbeat; called also Beau's syndrome. (references) |
Public Administration | Absence of systol, that is, cessation of the blood circulating, with the heart at standstill, not pumping. Electric asystole is absence of electrical activity of the heart on the electrocardiogram. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: AsystoleSynonyms: cardiac arrest (n), cardiopulmonary arrest (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Asystole |
| English words defined with "asystole": Asystolism. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "asystole": carotid sinus syncope, carotid sinus syndrome ♦ hypersensitive carotid sinus syndrome ♦ pacemaker dependency, pacer dependency. (references) |
| "Asystole" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Asystole" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
asystole | 19 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "asystole"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | asystoli. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | asystolie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | asystolia, sydämenpysähdys (circulatory arrest). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | asystolie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Asystolle, Asystolie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ασυστολία. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | asistolia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | asystoleay assistolia. (various references) asistolia. (various references) asystoli. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "asystole": extrasystole. (additional references) | |
Words containing "asystole": extrasystoles. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "asystole" (pronounced 'A*sys"to*le'): Abatable, Abdicable, Abele, Abhominable, Abhorrible, Abolishable, Abominable, Abrogable, Absolvable, Absorbable, Abusable, Accendible, Accentuable, Acceptable, Accessible, Acclimatable, Acclimatizable, Accommodable, Accompanable, Accomplishable, Accomptable, Accordable, Accostable, Accountable, Accouple, Accusable, Accustomable, Acetable, Achievable, Acidifiable, Acquaintable, Acquirable, Acreable, Actable, Actionable, Adangle, Adaptable, Addable, Addible, Adducible, Adjustable, Adminicle, Administrable, Admirable, Admissible, Admittable, Adoptable, Adorable, Adustible, Advantageable. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-o-s-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: lysates, solates, systole, toyless. | |
-2 letters: leasts, lyases, lysate, osteal, sayest, slates, slatey, slyest, solate, stales, steals, stoles, styles, tassel, teslas, yeasts. | |
-3 letters: aloes, altos, asset, easts, essay, lases, lasso, lasts, least, loess, loses, lossy, lotas, lyase, lyses, lyssa, oases, oasts, sales, salts, salty, sates, sayst, seals, seats, setal, slate, slats, slaty, slays, sloes. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-l-o-s-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: autolyses. | |
+2 letters: stylobates. | |
+3 letters: autolysates, myeloblasts, osteoplasty, pyrolysates, seasonality, sympetalous. | |
+4 letters: abstemiously, disloyalties, extrasystole, fathomlessly, forestaysail, glycosylates, hydrolysates, passionately, polyanthuses, polysorbates. | |
+5 letters: associatively, assortatively, autocatalyses, bacteriolyses, bacteriolysis, blastomycoses, chromatolyses, erythroblasts, extrasystoles, forestaysails, lymphomatoses, octosyllables, perissodactyl, sensationally, southeasterly, spontaneously, stylographies, superloyalist. | |
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