Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Alternately contracting and dilating, as the heart; pulsating.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Alternately contracting and dilating; capable of or resulting from systole and diastole; pulsatory: as, the systaltic action of the heart. Compare
peristaltic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Physiol.) Capable of, or taking place by, alternate contraction and dilatation.
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- adjective biology Capable of, or taking place by,
alternate contraction anddilatation .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Late Latin systalticus, from Greek sustaltikos, from sustellein, to contract : sun-, syn- + stellein, to send; see stel- in Indo-European roots.]
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Latin systalticus drawing together, from Ancient Greek. Compare sustaltic, systole.
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Alternately contracting and dilating; pulsating. (from Phrontistery)
May 23, 2008