(n.) The rhythmical expansion or dilatation of the heart and arteries; -- correlative to systole, or contraction.
(n.) A figure by which a syllable naturally short is made long.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was a weak relation between AER and both systolic and diastolic blood pressures.
(2) In patients with coronary artery disease, electrocardiographic signs of left atrial enlargement (LAE-negative P wave deflection greater than or equal to 1 mm2 in lead V1) are associated with increased left ventricular end diastolic pressure (LVEDP).
(3) The 40 degrees C heating induced an increase in systolic, diastolic, average and pulse pressure at rectal temperature raised to 40 degrees C. Further growth of the body temperature was accompanied by a decrease in the above parameters.
(4) Nicardipine lowered systolic and diastolic blood pressure to normal, plasma aldosterone was reduced and serum potassium levels were increased.
(5) A mean difference for individual patients between the first and second recording within 5 mm Hg was observed in 49.3% and 52.1% of patients for 24-hour systolic and diastolic blood pressure, respectively.
(6) In guinea pig ventricular myocytes, the positive contractile staircase was associated with ascending staircases of both peak systolic and end diastolic [Ca2+]i because of a cumulative increase in diastolic [Ca2+]i.
(7) Of great influence on the results of measurements are preparation and registration (warm-up-time, amplification, closeness of pressure-system, unhurt catheters), factors relating to equipment and methods (air-bubbles in pressure-system, damping by filters, continuous infusion of the micro-catheter, level of zero-pressure), factors which occur during intravital measurement (pressure-drop along the arteria pulmonalis, influence of normal breathing, great intrapleural pressure changes, pressure damping in the catheter by thrombosis and external disturbances) and last not least positive and negative acceleration forces, which influence the diastolic and systolic pulmonary artery pressure.
(8) The diastolic sarcomere length was not affected by the changes in thyroid state.
(9) A patient with mitral stenosis and atrial flutter was found to have a normal diastolic closure rate (E to F slope).
(10) At that time, blood pressures, systolic and diastolic left ventricular dimensions, indices of systolic function (% FS, mVcf) and exercise capacity had not changed, while cardiac output was decreased and systemic peripheral vascular resistance was significantly increased.
(11) For each RG patient, two sex, age, and initial diastolic blood pressure (DBP) matched controls were found, obtaining thus a control group (CG) consisting of 70 hypertensive patients who were not participating in any relaxation program.
(12) At the end of the baseline period, supine diastolic blood pressure (SuDBP) was 105-140 mm Hg on hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ) 25 mg once daily and placebo t.i.d.
(13) Right ventricular volumes were determined in 12 patients with different levels of right and left ventricular function by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using an ECG gated multisection technique in planes perpendicular to the diastolic position of the interventricular septum.
(14) This could, however, not be related to a reduced LV diastolic filling rate.
(15) Further significantly positive associations to the incidence of myocardial infarction (MI) were found for the following parameters: Systolic and diastolic blood pressure, family history of premature MI, cigarette smoking, plasma levels of triglycerides, VLDL-cholesterol and blood glucose.
(16) A relation between ejection fraction (EF) and the echo minor dimension measurements in end diastole and end systole was formulated, which permitted estimation of the EF from the echo measurements.
(17) In the remaining 60 patients (35 with atherosclerotic stenosis and 25 with fibromuscular dysplasia), both mean systolic and diastolic pressure fell immediately after percutaneous transluminal dilatation and remained significantly lower for a period of up to five years.
(18) After paired pulse stimulation, only this cell compartment accumulates calcium at the end of diastole.
(19) A model for left ventricular diastolic mechanics is formulated that takes into account noneligible wall thickness, incompressibility, finite deformation, nonlinear elastic effects, and the known fiber architecture of the ventricular wall.
(20) The blood pressure of all 23 patients was significantly reduced (p = less than 0.01) in both systolic and diastolic blood pressures.
Ectasis
Definition:
(n.) The lengthening of a syllable from short to long.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pleural lesions, bronchial ectasis and mediastinal and hilar lymph node changes could be diagnosed.
(2) The X-ray results have been classified according to the following points of view: milk duct ectasies, milk duct cysts, ectasies and cysts, intracanalicular proliferations and the so called "normal" duct system.
(3) Such character is enhanced when estrogens are used, disappearing ductal ectasis, becoming evident a granulation tissue of strange body in phagocytic activity and in contact with the pellet.
(4) These observations can be compared to multiple osteolyses and be grouped together under the name of "intraosseous capillary ectasies".
(5) The normal medical treatment for simple somnipathy is of no success in a prison and the prisoners abuse the normally used medicaments to get into a state of ectasy.
(6) The Authors, on the basis of 9 casual radiographic observations of thoracic aortic ectasy in subjects affected of neoplasms and previously treated with antitumoral drugs, hypothesize a possible correlation between the use of adriamycin and the appearance of the aortic lesion.
(7) A patient operated upon for acalculous cholecystitis was later found to have Caroli's disease, congenital ectasis of intrahepatic bile ducts.
(8) Besides malformation of the glandular duct like stenosis and ectasis, functional factors like the character of salivary secretion are suspected as being responsible for the disease.
(9) Histologic examination demonstrated typical cystic ectasies of all glandular ducts in the esophagus; they appeared on radiologic examination and are visible at endoscopy as little yellowish cystic lesions.
(10) Histologically, cryonecrosis showed capillary ectasis with hyperemia.
(11) Main finding is a heavy granulocytic infiltration of the subsynovial stratum, similar to that seen in non-specific purulent inflammation, accompanied by marked ectasis and hyperaemia of the synovial vessels.
(12) 1) What form does AAA take: an atheromatous, spindle-shaped and partially thrombotic ectasis.
(13) Menometrorrhagia and hypermenorrhoea are often present in patients who also suffer from a state of insufficiency of the utero-adnexal venous system interpretable as a clinical entity of system pathology and accompanied by pictures of acquired venous ectasis.
(14) In the lumen, stenosis, obstruction, ectasis, and deformation due to pressure were recognized, in addition to excessive secretion and pigmentation as morphologic abnormalities or abnormal findings at bifurcation.
(15) In contrast to other studies which included only patients with blunting and ectasis even cases without blunting of the fornices have a clinical symptomatology.
(16) Overt shrinkage of bronchial dimension was demonstrated in chronic obstructive bronchiolitis; in both diffuse panbronchiolitis (DPB) and broncho-bronchiolitis obliterans (BBO), narrowing of the peripheral airways combined with ectasis of the proximal bronchi proved to be a common feature.
(17) Different methods suitable for management of these vascular ectasies are briefly reported.
(18) Report on 2 patients, with a mediastinal enlargement at the right tracheobronchial angle revealing an ectasis of the orifice of vena-azygos.
(19) They may be functional (Graham-Steel-murmurs, for instance with idiopathic pulmonary ectasis or pulmonary hypertension), but are more and more the symptom of postoperative pulmonary insufficiency.
(20) A seven-year-old boy, who complained of painless swelling mass over the right neck on exertion, was diagnosed as right internal jugular vein ectasis by the duplex Doppler ultrasound.