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Definition: Systole |
SystoleNoun1. The contraction of the chambers of the heart (especially the ventricles) to drive blood into the aorta and pulmonary artery. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "systole" was first used: 1578. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Period of contraction of the heart, especially of the ventricles. (references) |
Medicine | The period during which the heart contracts. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | Contraction of the heart, evidenced by a palpable pulse or electrical activity on the electrocardiogram. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Contraction | Noun: contraction, reduction, diminution; decrease; of size; defalcation, decrement; lessening, shrinking; Verb: compaction; tabes, collapse, emaciation, attenuation, tabefaction, consumption, marasmus, atrophy; systole, neck, hourglass. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Systole |
| English words defined with "systole": asystole ♦ blood pressure ♦ cardiac arrest, cardiopulmonary arrest ♦ papillary muscle, Peridiastole, Perisystole, Presystolic, Pulse wave ♦ Systolic, systolic murmur. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "systole": Counterpulsation ♦ Intra-Aortic Balloon Pumping ♦ Tricuspid Valve Prolapse. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "systole": Systaltic. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Systole" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (systole), German (systole). |
| "Systole" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Systole" is used about 2 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% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "systole": End-Systole. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
systole | 12 |
diastole systole | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "systole"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | sistollë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ترخيم مقطع لفظي, إنقباض القلب. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съкращаване на сърцето. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | srdeèní stah. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | systole. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | systole. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | systole. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | systole. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Systole. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συστολή (bashfulness, constraint, contraction, coyness, shrinkage, shyness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "תכוצות "לב. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szisztolé, periodikus szívösszehúzódás. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sistole. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ystolesay sistole, sístole. (various references) систола. (various references) sistola. (various references) sístole. (various references) systole. (various references) การบีบตัวของหัวใจ. (various references) uzun heceyi kısaltma, kâlp kasılması. (various references) систола. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | systole. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "systole": systoles. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "systole": extrasystole. (additional references) | |
Words containing "systole": extrasystoles. (additional references) | |
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"Systole" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: systime. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: toyless. | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-o-s-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: slyest, stoles, styles. | |
-2 letters: loess, loses, lossy, lyses, sloes, slots, soles, stole, styes, style, telos, toles. | |
-3 letters: less, lest, lets, leys, lose, loss, lost, lots, lyes, lyse, oles, oses, oyes, sels, sets, sloe, slot, sole, sols, sots, soys, stey, stye, tels, toes, tole, toss, toys, tyes. | |
-4 letters: els, ess, let, ley, lot, lye, oes. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-o-s-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: systoles. | |
+2 letters: autolyses, cytolyses, nonstyles, oldstyles, prostyles, urostyles. | |
+3 letters: bootlessly, costlessly, endostyles, footlessly, histolyses, holystones, hypostyles, ostensibly, photolyses, polyesters, proselytes, spotlessly, strongyles, stylebooks, stylobates, tonelessly. | |
+4 letters: autolysates, chrysolites, chrysotiles, countlessly, cyclostomes, cyclostyles, dishonestly, dissolutely, doubtlessly, frontolyses, heterolyses, heterolysis, myeloblasts, ostensively, osteoplasty, pointlessly, polyestrous, polytheisms, polytheists, proselytise, proselytism, proteolyses, proteolysis, psilophytes, pyrolusites, pyrolysates, seasonality, seditiously, strenuously, sympetalous, symptomless, typhlosoles, worthlessly. | |
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