Systole (/ˈsɪstəli/ SIST-ə-lee) is the part of the cardiac cycle during which some chambers of the heart contract after refilling with blood. The term...

following a period of robust contraction and pumping of blood, called systole. After emptying, the heart relaxes and expands to receive another influx...

Systole may refer to: Systole (medicine), a term describing the contraction of the heart Systolic array, a term used in computer architecture Systolic...

chambers of the heart are refilling with blood. The contrasting phase is systole when the heart chambers are contracting. Atrial diastole is the relaxing...

are associated with pathologies and are not routinely heard. Ventricular systole Cardiac diastole ECG The EKG complex. P=P wave, PR=PR interval, QRS=QRS...

cycle, the atria receive blood while relaxed in diastole, then contract in systole to move blood to the ventricles. Each atrium is roughly cube-shaped except...

topological manifestations. See also Introduction to systolic geometry. The systole of a compact metric space X is a metric invariant of X, defined to be the...

occurring between heartbeats. Pressure waves generated by the heart in systole move the arterial walls. Forward movement of blood occurs when the boundaries...

resulting bulging of perspicuous into the right atrium during isovolumic systole), and (V) atrial venous filling. The downward deflections correspond with...

with contraction of the left atrium, and the mitral valve closes during systole with contraction of the left ventricle. The valve opens and closes because...