Usually means: Contraction phase of the heartbeat.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. systole: Merriam-Webster
  2. systole: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. systole: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. systole: Collins English Dictionary
  5. systole: Vocabulary.com
  6. systole: Wordnik
  7. systole: Wiktionary
  8. systole: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. systole: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. systole: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. systole: Dictionary.com
  12. systole: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Systole (medicine), Systole: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Systole: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. systole: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. systole: Rhymezone
  17. Systole: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. systole: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. systole: FreeDictionary.org
  20. systole: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. systole: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  2. -systole: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. systole: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. systole: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Systole: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. systole: Medical Etymology Anatomy
  7. -systole, systole: Medical dictionary
  8. PERFUSION TECHNOLOGY, OPEN HEART SURGERY AND CARDIOLOGY (No longer online)
  9. Systole: Drug Medical Dictionary
  10. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (systole)

noun:  (physiology) The rhythmic contraction of the heart, by which blood is driven through the arteries.
noun:  (prosody) A shortening of a naturally long vowel.
noun:  (mathematics) The shortest noncontractible loop on a compact metric space.

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