perisystole

English

Etymology

From peri- +‎ systole.

Noun

perisystole (uncountable)

  1. (physiology) The brief interval between the diastole and systole of the heart.
    perisystole
    • 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.

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