Systole

(sis'to-le.) [Gr., a contracting.] (Anat.) See DIASTOLE. (seez'rahn,) a town of Ru ia in Europe, govt. Simbirsk, on the Volga, 76 miles S. of Simbirsk. Pop. 25,315. (se'ze-jë.) (From Gr. syzygia, a going together.] (Ast.) Aterm equally used for the conjunction and opposition of the moon and planets, with the sun. [s. 874]