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Definition of Diastolic pressure
1. Noun. The blood pressure (as measured by a sphygmomanometer) after the contraction of the heart while the chambers of the heart refill with blood.
Medical Definition of Diastolic pressure
1. The intracardiac pressure during or resulting from diastolic relaxation of a cardiac chamber; the lowest arterial blood pressure reached during any given ventricular cycle. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diastolic Pressure
Literary usage of Diastolic pressure
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of physiology: For Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1915)
"... and no difference between systolic and diastolic pressure. In speaking of the
pressure in the blood-vessels we refer usually to what is called the mean ..."
2. The Medical Clinics of North America by Richard J. Havel, K. Patrick Ober (1918)
"Zero diastolic pressure is pathognomonic of aortic insufficiency on a syphilitic
basis. It does not occur in rheumatic aortic insufficiency. ..."
3. Physical Diagnosis by Richard Clarke Cabot (1919)
"Measurement of diastolic pressure. The auscultatory method (Korotkoff) just
described is especially useful in the measurement of diastolic or minimum ..."
4. The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children (1916)
"Briefly stated, I mean by pressure ratio, the percentage obtained by dividing
the pulse pressure by the diastolic pressure. Take the systolic and diastolic ..."
5. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Pulse Pressure The study of the minimum or diastolic pressure which gives also
the pulse pressure (difference between the systolic and diastolic pressure) ..."
6. The Harvey Lectures by Harvey Society of New York, New York Academy of Medicine (1920)
"I did not see a single case in which the diastolic pressure had been observed.
... The systolic pressure falls more than the diastolic pressure falls. ..."
7. Human Vitality and Efficiency Under Prolonged Restricted Diet by Francis Gano Benedict (1919)
"The diastolic pressure for this date ranged from 75 mm. with Tho, to 90 mm. with
... The average diastolic pressure for the 11 men on this day was 83 mm. ..."
8. A Manual of pharmacology and its applications to therapeutics and toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1922)
"(The fall in diastolic pressure is about half of that in the systolic pressure;
Lawrence, 1912.) 1 Systolic blood pressure. Influence of Dosage. ..."
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