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Diastasis (physiology)

middle stage of diastole during the cycle of a heartbeat

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 7, 2023
Entity authorityQ5272092 ↗
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In physiology, diastasis is the middle stage of diastole during the cycle of a heartbeat, where the initial passive filling of the heart's ventricles has slowed, but before the atria contract to complete the active filling.

Diastasis is the longest phase of cardiac cycle.

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This entry incorporates text from “Diastasis (physiology)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.