Associations to the word «Asystole»

Wiktionary

ASYSTOLE, noun. (pathology) (cardiology) Absence of systole; failure of the heart to contract.

Dictionary definition

ASYSTOLE, noun. Absence of systole; failure of the ventricles of the heart to contract (usually caused by ventricular fibrillation) with consequent absence of the heart beat leading to oxygen lack and eventually to death.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats