systole

Senso (Inglese)

1. The rhythmic contraction of the heart, by which blood is driven through the arteries.
2. A shortening of a naturally long vowel.
3. The shortest noncontractible loop on a compact metric space.
4. The contraction of the contractile vesicles in certain algae, plasmodia, and zoospores.

Concetti

sistole

miocardia

sinonimi

contraction

shrinkage

bashfulness

shyness

myocardia

coyness

constraint

Traduzioni

sístole

Systole

sístole

sístole

systole

systole

συστολή

kalp kasılması

yürekle damarların kasılması

sistol

الإنقباض

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈsɪstəli/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Borrowed from New Latin, from Ancient Greek συστολή (sustolḗ), from συστέλλω (sustéllō, “to contract”), from σύν (sún, “together”) + στέλλω (stéllō, “to send”).