diastasis
(dī-as′tă-sĭs)
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(′tă-sēz″)
pl. diastases [Gr. diastasis, separation]
1. In surgery, injury to a bone involving separation of an epiphysis.
2. In cardiac physiology, the last part of diastole. It follows the period of most rapid diastolic filling of the ventricles, consists of a period of retarded inflow of blood from atria into ventricles, lasts (in humans under average conditions) about 0.2 sec, and is immediately followed by atrial systole.
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Venes, Donald, editor. "Diastasis." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 24th ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2021. Nursing Central, nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/737492/all/diastasis.
Diastasis. In: Venes DD, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/737492/all/diastasis. Accessed March 29, 2024.
Diastasis. (2021). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary (24th ed.). F.A. Davis Company. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/737492/all/diastasis
Diastasis [Internet]. In: Venes DD, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. [cited 2024 March 29]. Available from: https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/737492/all/diastasis.
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