Crossword-Solution: SYSTOLE 7 letters, 22 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word Word Type Definition
Systole n. The shortening of the long syllable.
Systole n. The contraction of the heart and arteries by which the
blood is forced onward and the circulation kept up; -- correlative to
diastole.

We have 22 clues for the answer “SYSTOLE”

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Heartbeat action 1 answer
Ventricular contraction 1 answer
Shortening of a syllable 1 answer
Rhythmic heart contraction 1 answer
Phase of a heartbeat 1 answer
Part of the heart's work. 1 answer
Part of a heartbeat 1 answer
Part of a blood pressure reading 1 answer
Opposite of ectasis 1 answer
Normal rhythmical contraction of the heart 1 answer
Natural contraction of the heart. 1 answer
Heart's contraction 1 answer
Heart contraction 1 answer
Half a tick 1 answer
Contraction of the heart 1 answer
Cardiac cycle moment when the heart muscle contracts 1 answer
Cardiac contraction 1 answer
Cardiologist's concern 8 answers
CARDIAC ___ 8 answers
ABNORMALLY RAPID HEARTBEAT 10 answers
A SPECIALIZED BIT OF HEART TISSUE THAT CONTROLS THE HEARTBEAT 10 answers
CARDIAC READOUT 10 answers
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with SYSTOLE (5)

There are days also when countless medusae drift in--beautiful veined creatures that throb like hearts, with perpetual systole and diastole of their diaphanous envelops: some, of translucent azure or rose, seem in the flood the shadows or ghosts of huge campanulate flowers;--others have the semblance of strange living vegetables,--great milky tubers, just beginning to sprout.
Chita: A Memory of Last Island Lafcadio Hearn 1996
Before the net ripped, just in the instant when my balloon was at its systole, the whole apparatus was, I am convinced, heavier than air.
Tono-Bungay H.G. Wells 1996
The heart-sounds were regular, and the elevation of the skin by the blade coincided with the ventricular systole.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine George M. Gould 1996
Every man’s _heart_ (this organ belongs, you know, to the organic system) has a regular mode of action; but I know a great many men whose _brains_, and all their voluntary existence flowing from their brains, have a _systole_ and _diastole_ as regular as that of the heart itself.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 2013
Each huge globe of blinding whiteness was as it were clutched, compressed in a systole that was followed by a transitory diastole, and again a systole like a tightening grip, darkness, light, darkness, in rapid alternation.
When the Sleeper Wakes Herbert George Wells 1997

Quotes with SYSTOLE (3)

To Have Without Holding: Learning to love differently is hard, love with the hands wide open, lovewith the doors banging on their hinges, the cupboard unlocked, the windroaring and whimpering in the roomsrustling the sheets and snapping the blindsthat thwack like rubber bandsin an open palm. It hurts to love wide openstretching the muscles that feelas if they are made of wet plaster, then of blunt knives, thenof sharp knives. It hurts to thwart the reflexesof grab, of clutch,…
Marge Piercy
We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive recirculation.
Will Durant The Lessons of History
Each heartbeat begins with a single, electrical impulse, or "spark." The distinctive sound we hear through a stethoscope, or when we place our head on a loved one's chest, is the sound of the heart valves opening and closing in perfect synchronicity with each other. It is a two-party rhythm - a delicate dance of systole and diastole, which propels the heart's electrically charged particles through its chambers roughly every second of the day, every day of our lives.
Jessi Kirby Things We Know by Heart
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY.

Used 31 times in crossword archives (1953–2021).