Diastasis

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The midportion of diastole, when the blood enters the ventricle slowly or ceases to enter. Diastasis duration is in inverse proportion to heart rate and is absent at very high heart rates. (ICRP Publication 120, 2012)

ICRP Glossary entry - June 2019


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