Systolic and Diastolic Pressures

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What does systole mean?
A period of contraction of the ventricles
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What does diastole mean?
A period of relaxation of the ventricles during which they fill with blood
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What is diastolic blood pressure?
The pressure in the arteries when the heart is resting following ejection of blood
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What is systolic blood pressure?
The pressure when the left ventricle contracts and pushes blood into the aorta
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What happens in atrial systole?
The atria contract
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What happens in ventricular systole?
The ventricles contract
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What happens in Cardiac diastole?
Relaxation of the atria and ventricles
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What does diastole mean?

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A period of relaxation of the ventricles during which they fill with blood

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What is diastolic blood pressure?

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What is systolic blood pressure?

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What happens in atrial systole?

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