systolában

systolában is a Hungarian adverb meaning “in systole” or “during the systolic phase” of the cardiac cycle. It is used in medical descriptions to indicate that a phenomenon occurs while the ventricles contract and eject blood into the aorta and pulmonary artery.

In the cardiac cycle, systole follows diastole. During systole, the ventricles generate high pressure, the aortic and pulmonary valves open, and blood is ejected into the systemic and pulmonary circulations. The duration of systole in a typical adult at rest is about 0.25 seconds, with the total heart cycle around 0.8 seconds; diastole lasts longer than systole at resting heart rates. Systolic pressure peaks during this phase, while arterial pressure falls during diastole after valve closure.

The term is commonly used to describe the timing of auscultatory findings and other cardiovascular events. For example, a heart murmur heard during systole is described as systolic, whereas a murmur heard during the diastolic phase is described as diastolic. The expression systolában is also used to specify that a measurement or event occurs during this phase, such as a pressure waveform feature observed systolában.

Etymology and grammar: the word derives from Greek systole, meaning contraction, and in Hungarian the suffix -ban marks location or time, yielding the meaning “in systole.” The form systolában thus functions as a temporal indicator within medical descriptions.