Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun diastole

1 sense of diastole

Sense 1
diastole -- (the widening of the chambers of the heart between two contractions when the chambers fill with blood)
       => pulse, pulsation, heartbeat, beat -- (the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart; "he could feel the beat of her heart")