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Definition of Asystole
1. Noun. Absence of systole; failure of the ventricles of the heart to contract (usually caused by ventricular fibrillation) with consequent absence of the heart beat leading to oxygen lack and eventually to death.
Definition of Asystole
1. n. A weakening or cessation of the contractile power of the heart.
Definition of Asystole
1. Noun. (pathology cardiology) Absence of systole; failure of the heart to contract. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Asystole
1. a heart malfunction [n -S]
Medical Definition of Asystole
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Asystole
Literary usage of Asystole
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"Fatal asystole in Exophthalmic Goitre. ... to determine whether the fatal asystole
occurring in some cases may be due to the tachycardia or not. ..."
2. Heart disease: with special reference to prognosis and treatment by William Henry Broadbent, John Francis Harpin Broadbent (1900)
"... THEIR IMPORTANCE—TREATMENT OF VENOUS CONGESTION— VENESECTION—TREATMENT OF THE
CONDITION OF asystole IN AORTIC DISEASE—DIGITALIS IN AORTIC INCOMPETENCE. ..."
3. The New York Medical Times (1896)
"asystole Treatment.—By asystole is understood an obstruction of the circulation,
... The appearance of a patient suffering from asystole is characteristic. ..."
4. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1875)
"In these two forms of disease, therefore, sudden death from asystole must be and
is a somewhat rare affection, the more usual mode of death being syncope ..."
5. The Senile Heart: Its Symptoms, Sequelae, and Treatment by George William Balfour (1894)
"In sudden death from cardiac failure there is failure of the heart to contract,
failure of the asystole may r , . , heart to respond to the call of the be ..."
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