Look up: asystole

1. Asystole
   In medicine, asystole (colloquially known as flatline) is a state of no cardiac electrical activity, hence no contractions of the myocardium and no cardiac output or blood flow. Asystole is one of the conditions that may be used for a medical practitioner to certify clinical or legal death. Asystol...
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2. asystole
   [n] - absence of systole
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3. Asystole
   Asystole: A dire form of cardiac arrest in which the heart stops beating -- there is no systole -- and there is no electrical activity in the heart. The heart is at a total standstill. In the past the asystolic heart usually could not be restarted. However, in 2004 people with asystole were reported...
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4. asystole
   Absence of systol,that is,cessation of the blood circulating,with the heart at standstill,not pumping.Electric asystole is absence of electrical activity of the heart on the electrocardiogram Category: Management in the public and private sector
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5. Asystole
   A·sys'to·le noun [ Prefix a- not + systole .] (Physiol.) A weakening or cessation of the contractile power of the heart.
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6. asystole
   <cardiology> Cardiac standstill or arrest, absence of a heartbeat. ... Synonym: Beau's syndrome. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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7. asystole
   cardiac arrest 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
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8. asystole
   (a-sis´to-le) cardiac standstill or arrest; absence of heartbeat. adj., asystol´ic., adj.
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9. Asystole
   • (n.) A weakening or cessation of the contractile power of the heart.
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10. asystole
    cardiac standstill or arrest; absence of a heartbeat; called also Beau's syndrome.
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11. asystole
    asystole, asystolia, asystolic Absence of a heartbeat.
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12. asystole
    Type: Term Pronunciation: ā-sis′tō-lē Definitions: 1. Absence of contractions of the heart. Synonyms: asystolia
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