diastole

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: di=as=to=le

OXFORD DICTIONARY

diastole, n. Physiol. the period between two contractions of the heart when the heart muscle relaxes and allows the chambers to fill with blood (cf. SYSTOLE).

Derivative

diastolic adj.

Etymology

LL f. Gk diastello (as DIA-, stello place)

THESAURUS

diastole

arsis, beat, bloat, bloatedness, bloating, blowing up, bout, circle, circuit, course, cycle, dilatation, dilation, distension, downbeat, dropsy, edema, flatulence, flatulency, flatus, gassiness, inflation, intumescence, meteorism, puff, puffiness, puffing, pulse, revolution, rotation, round, series, spell, stretching, swell, swellage, swelling, swollenness, systole, thesis, tumefaction, tumescence, tumidity, tumidness, turgescence, turgidity, turgidness, turn, tympanism, tympany, upbeat, wheel, windiness

ROGET THESAURUS

diastole

Expansion

N expansion, increase of size, enlargement, extension, augmentation, amplification, ampliation, aggrandizement, spread, increment, growth, development, pullulation, swell, dilation, rarefaction, turgescence, turgidness, turgidity, dispansion, obesity, hydrocephalus, hydrophthalmus, dropsy, tumefaction, intumescence, swelling, tumor, diastole, distension, puffing, puffiness, inflation, pandiculation, dilatability, expansibility, germination, growth, upgrowth, accretion, budding, gemmation, overgrowth, overdistension, hypertrophy, tympany, bulb, plumper, superiority of size, big bang, Hubble constant, expanded larger, &c (large), swollen, expansive, wide open, wide spread, flabelliform, overgrown, exaggerated, bloated, fat, turgid, tumid, hypertrophied, dropsical, pot bellied, swag bellied, edematous, oedematous, obese, puffy, pursy, blowzy, bigswoln, distended, patulous, bulbous, full blown, full grown, full formed, big, abdominous, enchymatous, rhipidate, tumefacient, tumefying.