Definition: 'Diastolic Pressure'
diastolic pressure
Type: Term
Definitions:
1. the intracardiac pressure during or resulting from diastolic relaxation of a cardiac chamber; the lowest arterial blood pressure reached during any given ventricular cycle.
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