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diastole

(n): the widening of the chambers of the heart between two contractions when the chambers fill with blood

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about 1 year ago polymorph said:

Mentioned with its cousin systole in the Robinson Jeffers' poem The Great Explosion:

And no doubt it will burst again; diastole and systole: the
whole universe beats like a heart.

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