perisystole

English

Etymology

From peri- +‎ systole.

Noun

perisystole (uncountable)

1. (physiology) The brief interval between the diastole and systole of the heart.
   • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 127:

     And so, borrowing cards of membership of the Lanchap Turf Club, they had gone, the four of them, to sit in a dilatation of hope, a contraction of despair, a perisystole of speculation.

   perisystole

References

• “perisystole”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• proselytise