aborted systole

[ ə-bôr′tĭd ]

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A loss of the systolic beat in the radial pulse through weakness of the ventricular contraction.

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Their website seems almost exclusively involved with smoking out products and manufacturers that use aborted fetal cell lines.
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Meanwhile, our unlikely Ibiza hero Orlando Bloom has made a full recovery from the aborted fistfight.
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Note: These are only a handful of many aborted could-be classics.
Doomed Passion Projects of Hollywood: The Lost Classics of Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, and More|Marlow Stern|March 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
That said, these are not the same folks shouting “God Hates Fags” and carrying pictures of aborted fetuses.
How Anti-Gay Will Mississippi’s ‘New’ Religious Freedom Bill Be?|Jay Michaelson|March 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST

As teenagers, we were taught about the sanctity of life with a graphic depiction of an aborted fetus.
Hope and Change in the Vatican|Jon Favreau|January 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The ding of her husband's cash register and the click of her dangle bag mark the systole and diastole of married life.
Bizarre|Lawton Mackall
Rudimentary Mllerian ducts, opening anteriorly into the body-cavity, which sometimes carry aborted Kopfnieren.
The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1|Francis Maitland Balfour
In neither case are the Malpighian bodies connected with the aborted tubes.
The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1|Francis Maitland Balfour
The remedies are then supposed to have aborted or to have inhibited the development of the cold.
Psychotherapy|James J. Walsh
Systole and diastole, the contraction and dilation of the heart and arteries.
Essays|Ralph Waldo Emerson