diastolic
Americanadjective
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pertaining to or produced by diastole.
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(of blood pressure) indicating the arterial pressure during the interval between heartbeats.
Other Word Forms
- hyperdiastolic adjective
- postdiastolic adjective
- prediastolic adjective
- pseudodiastolic adjective
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These participants also experienced increases in diastolic blood pressure, reductions in shear rate and blood flow, and lower leg muscle oxygenation.
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The trial found that tirzepatide offered substantial benefits for managing diastolic heart failure, reducing deaths, preventing hospitalizations and generally benefiting recipients' health and quality of life.
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Systolic and diastolic blood pressure were measured using an aneroid sphygmomanometer.
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The study showed that the diastolic dysfunction in female mice resulted from altered heart filament proteins.
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In this study, the patch was tested on 36 healthy volunteers for its ability to measure blood flow velocities -- peak systolic, mean flow and end diastolic velocities -- in the brain's major arteries.
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