midsystolic
midsystolic adjective: of or pertaining to the middle portion of systole, as with midsystolic murmur, midsystolic ejection, and midsystolic click.
Adjective
midsystolic (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to the middle portion of systole, as with midsystolic murmur, midsystolic ejection, and midsystolic click.
- Evidence has recently been produced to show that patients with a midsystolic click and late systolic murmur have a peculiar abnormality of the mitral valve: the systolic ballooning of the leaflets, particularly the posterior one, usually associated with mild mitral insufficiency.1973, Rizzon P, Biasco G, Brindicci G, Mauro F, “Familial syndrome of midsystolic click and late systolic murmur”, in British Heart Journal, volume 35, number 3, →PMID, →PMCID, pages 245–259
Origin of midsystolic
From mid- + systole + -ic or midsystole + -ic or mid- + systolic.
Questions about midsystolic
- What does midsystolic mean?
- Midsystolic means of or pertaining to the middle portion of systole, as with midsystolic murmur, midsystolic ejection, and midsystolic click.
- What part of speech is midsystolic?
- Midsystolic is an adjective.
Words near midsystolic in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: midsystolic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “midsystolic.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/midsystolic. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.