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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
n
1: 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 [syn: asystole, cardiac arrest, cardiopulmonary arrest]
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Asystole A*sys"to*le, n. [Pref. a- not + systole.] (Physiol.) A weakening or cessation of the contractile power of the heart.
