a. [ad. mod.L. systolicus, f. systole: see prec. and -IC. Cf. F. systolique (Rabelais).] Pertaining to or marked by systole.

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a. 1693.  Urquhart’s Rabelais, III. iv. The Heart, which by its agitation of Diastolick and Systolick Motions so neatly subtilizeth and inflames it [sc. choler].

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1817.  trans. Swedenborg’s Heaven & Hell, § 445. The systolic motions of the heart.

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1853.  Markham, Skoda’s Auscult., 158. Systolic murmurs heard in the left ventricle.

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1875.  H. C. Wood, Therap. (1879), 136. The diastole generally becomes imperfect, one portion of the ventricle maintaining its systolic spasm, while the rest dilates.

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1877.  Huxley, Anat. Inv. Anim., ii. 77. This systolic and diastolic movement usually occurs at a fixed point in the protoplasm.

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1899.  Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VII. 241. The cardiac systolic expansion of the brain within the closed cranium is rendered possible by the ebb of the cerebro-spinal fluid.

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