Usually means: Period of heart muscle relaxation.
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  6. peridiastole: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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Definitions from Wiktionary (peridiastole)

▸ noun:  (physiology, obsolete) The very brief period of time s between the systole and the diastole of the heart.

Similar:
paradiastole, periapse, pausa, period, per., peridromos, pseudoperiod, paræsthesis, epitasis, pausation, more...

Opposite:
systole, contraction, cardiac cycle

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Similar:
paradiastole, periapse, pausa, period, per., peridromos, pseudoperiod, paræsthesis, epitasis, pausation, more...

Opposite:
systole, contraction, cardiac cycle



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