perisystole
English
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editperisystole (uncountable)
- (physiology) The brief interval between the diastole and systole of the heart.
- 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 127:
- And so, borrowing cards of membership of the Lanchap Turf Club, they had gone, the four of them, to sit in a dilatation of hope, a contraction of despair, a perisystole of speculation.
- perisystole
References
edit- “perisystole”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.