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DIASTOLIC
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to a diastole or happening during a diastole
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
diastole (the widening of the chambers of the heart between two contractions when the chambers fill with blood)
Derivation:
diastole (the widening of the chambers of the heart between two contractions when the chambers fill with blood)
Context examples:
Brain dysfunction or damage resulting from MALIGNANT HYPERTENSION, usually associated with a diastolic blood pressure in excess of 125 mmHg.
(Hypertensive Encephalopathy, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
EXAMPLE(S): For blood pressure, the results might be 120 for systolic and 80 for diastolic, where systolic and diastolic are the typeCode distinguishing the two numbers.
(Defined Observation Result Type Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
EXAMPLE(S): A blood pressure measurement may result in a diastolic number and a systolic number.
(Defined Observation Result, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
Blood pressure is taken using two measurements: systolic (measured when the heart beats, when blood pressure is at its highest) and diastolic (measured between heart beats, when blood pressure is at its lowest).
(Blood pressure, NCI Dictionary)
A test result that reports the diastolic and systolic pressure of the blood.
(Blood Pressure Finding, NCI Thesaurus)
Hypertension characterized diastolic blood pressure greater than 90 mmHg on two occasions.
(Diastolic Hypertension, NCI Thesaurus)
Used alone or in combination with other drugs, this agent causes reduction of peripheral and renal vascular resistance, and lowers both systolic and diastolic blood pressure and heart rate.
(Guanfacine, NCI Thesaurus)
This results in vasodilatation, increased renal blood flow thereby enhancing natriuresis and diuresis leading to a lowering in diastolic blood pressure.
(Fenoldopam, NCI Thesaurus)
MAP can be approximated without an invasive procedure using the following formula: diastolic pressure plus 1/3 of the pulse pressure, where pulse pressure is systolic pressure - diastolic pressure.
(Mean Arterial Pressure, NCI Thesaurus)
Phenylephrine is a post-synaptic alpha-adrenergic receptor agonist that causes vasoconstriction, increases systolic/diastolic pressures, reflex bradycardia, and increases stroke output.
(Phenylephrine Bitartrate, NCI Thesaurus)
