diastolic
Speech parts
1. diastolic - Noun
2. diastolic - Adjective
Meaning
Of or pertaining to diastole.
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Examples
An example of normal measured values for a resting, healthy adult human is 120 mm Hg systolic and 80 mm Hg diastolic (written as 120/80 mm Hg, and spoken as "one-twenty over eighty").
A variety of analysis algorithms can be employed in order to estimate the systolic, diastolic, and mean arterial pressure.
After 8 weeks of treatment, the triple combination therapy produced greater reductions in both and diastolic blood pressures (p < 0.0001) compared to each of the 3 dual combination therapies.
For each heartbeat, blood pressure varies between systolic and diastolic pressures.
Some equipment uses computer-aided analysis of the instantaneous arterial pressure waveform to determine the systolic, mean, and diastolic points.
But TM proved to be the big winner, lowering systolic blood pressure by 10.7 mm Hg and diastolic by 4.7 mm Hg.