asystole
noun
asystole is a noun meaning “An absence of a systole; a failure of the heart to contract” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-S-Y-S-T-O-L-E, and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of asystole is asystoles.
What does asystole mean?
noun
- 1
An absence of a systole; a failure of the heart to contract.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce asystole?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Ashby-de-la-pooch-asystole.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of asystole
- asystoles plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is asystole?
Asystole appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 124,184th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Asystole in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense absence of systole:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | asystole, asystolie |
| Portuguese | assistolia |
| Spanish | asistolia |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does asystole come from?
From a- + systole.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).