Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or produced by diastole.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to diastole.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pertaining to a
diastole .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to a diastole or happening during a diastole
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Examples
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The bottom blood pressure number is referred to as diastolic, a word whose meaning is unknown even to trained physicians.
Race You to the Fountain of Youth Martha Bolton 2007
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The bottom blood pressure number is referred to as diastolic, a word whose meaning is unknown even to trained physicians.
Race You to the Fountain of Youth Martha Bolton 2007
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The bottom blood pressure number is referred to as diastolic, a word whose meaning is unknown even to trained physicians.
Race You to the Fountain of Youth Martha Bolton 2007
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The bottom blood pressure number is referred to as diastolic, a word whose meaning is unknown even to trained physicians.
Race You to the Fountain of Youth Martha Bolton 2007
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Malignant hypertension is defined as a diastolic blood pressure of 120 mmHg or having evidence of acute organ damage such as swelling in the back of the eye.
CNN.com 2011
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The upper or first number in a blood pressure reading is the systolic pressure and the lower or second number is called the diastolic pressure.
WN.com - Articles related to Hypertension study reveals benefits of online tracking 2010
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The upper or first number in a blood pressure reading is the systolic pressure and the lower or second number is called the diastolic pressure.
WN.com - Articles related to Detained Salvadoran wanted in Cuba: Chavez 2010
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The research team looked in particular at a condition called diastolic dysfunction.
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WASHINGTON, DC (HealthDay News) -- Elderly people suffering from a type of heart disease called diastolic heart failure do not seem to benefit from the commonly prescribed heart failure drugs, researchers from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles report.
WUSA-TV - Vodcasts 2009
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There's another type, called diastolic heart failure.
unknown title 2009
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