How to pronounce“systole”in English
that are your arteries or veins and your capillaries.
And that top number is called the systole or the systolic blood pressure, because that's the pressure at the time, when your heart contracts.
So the top number, which normally, if you have a healthy blood pressure, is somewhere in the range of 90 to 120 millimeters
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Definitions of “systole”
The rhythmic contraction of the heart, by which blood is driven through the arteries.
“[…] I did almoſt beleeve, that the motion of the Heart vvas knovvn to God alone: For neither could I rightly diſtinguiſh, vvhich vvay the Diaſtole and Systole came to be, nor vvhen nor vvhere the dilation and conſtriction had its exiſtence.”
A shortening of a naturally long vowel.