Definition of "asystole" [a•sys•to•le]

• Absence of systole; failure of the heart to contract. (noun)

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• "Other patients with less dramatic multi-organ system abnormalities have died from sudden cardiac asystole during the intermediate state of colchicine poisoning. 3"
• "If you expose a heart to a strong electrical shock, it will momentarily stop - called asystole (the disaster equivalent of 'bottoming out'), and then usually restart itself (the 'self-jump-start' process)."
• "At that time he went into an asystole rhythm which is flat line."