Diastole vs. Diastyle

Diastolenoun

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.

Diastolenoun

The lengthening of a vowel or syllable beyond its typical length.

Diastolenoun

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

Diastolenoun

The rhythmical expansion or dilatation of the heart and arteries; - correlative to systole, or contraction.

Diastolenoun

A figure by which a syllable naturally short is made long.

Diastolenoun

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

Diastole

Diastole ( dy-AST-ə-lee) is the part of the cardiac cycle during which the heart refills with blood after the emptying done during systole (contraction). Ventricular diastole is the period during which the two ventricles are relaxing from the contortions/wringing of contraction, then dilating and filling; atrial diastole is the period during which the two atria likewise are relaxing under suction, dilating, and filling.

Diastylenoun

(architecture) An intercolumnation of three column diameters.

Diastylenoun

See under Intercolumniation.