Diastole vs. Diastyle — What's the Difference?

Diastole ( dy-AST-ə-lee) is the part of the cardiac cycle during which the heart refills with blood after the emptying done during systole (contraction). Ventricular diastole is the period during which the two ventricles are relaxing from the contortions/wringing of contraction, then dilating and filling; atrial diastole is the period during which the two atria likewise are relaxing under suction, dilating, and filling.

(architecture) An intercolumnation of three column diameters.

(Physiology) The normal rhythmically occurring relaxation and dilatation of the heart chambers, especially the ventricles, during which they fill with blood.

See under Intercolumniation.

The lengthening of a normally short syllable in Greek and Latin verse.

The phase or process of relaxation and dilation of the heart chambers, between contractions, during which they fill with blood; an instance of the process.

The lengthening of a vowel or syllable beyond its typical length.

The hypodiastole, a textual or punctuation mark formerly used to disambiguate homonyms in Greek.

The rhythmical expansion or dilatation of the heart and arteries; - correlative to systole, or contraction.

A figure by which a syllable naturally short is made long.

The widening of the chambers of the heart between two contractions when the chambers fill with blood