Definitions for diastasis

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diastasis di·as·ta·sis

Spelling: [dahy-as-tuh-sis]

IPA: /daɪˈæs tə sɪs/

Diastasis is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 132 anagrams from letters in diastasis (aadiissst).

Definitions for diastasis

noun

1. Medicine/Medical. the separation of normally joined parts, as in the dislocation of bones, without fracture.
2. Physiology. the diastolic rest period immediately preceding systole.

Origin of diastasis

1735-45; New Latin Greek diástasis a separation. See dia-, stasis

Examples for diastasis

As the result of injury, the end of the bone may become detached, a variety of fracture known as diastasis.

The pulse was preternaturally slow—great stupor—dilatation of the pupils, and diastasis of the bones of the head.

Neither of them for the rest take into account the part played by diastasis and ferments.