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DIASTOLE, DIASTOLY, n. [Gr., to set or send from.]

1. Among physicians, a dilation of the heart, auricles and arteries; opposed to systole or contraction.

2. In grammar, the extension of a syllable; or a figure by which a syllable naturally short is made long.

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