See Also: isovolumic relaxation(medicine)
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isovolumic interval(medicine)
relaxation(dictionary)
relaxation(dictionary)
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isometric relaxation(medicine)
transverse relaxation(medicine)
relaxation time(medicine)
relaxation techniques(medicine)

woodside (iou) and isovolumic relaxation (medicine)


woodside (iou)



woodside noun. ME.
[from WOOD noun1 + SIDE noun.]
The side or edge of a wood.
Atlantic Monthly The snow may be gone..except..along fences and woodsides.

isovolumic relaxation (medicine)


isovolumic relaxation


That part of the cardiac cycle between the time of aortic valve closure and mitral opening, during which the ventricular muscle decreases its tension without lengthening so that ventricular volume remains unaltered; the heart is never precisely isovolumetric (vs. Isovolumic) except during long diastoles with a midiastolic period of diastasis.

Synonym: isovolumetric relaxation.