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单词 diastaltic
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diastalticadj.

/dʌɪəˈstaltɪk/
Etymology: < Greek διασταλτικός serving to distinguish, in Music ‘able to expand or exalt the mind’, < διαστέλλειν to separate, put asunder, < διά apart + στέλλειν to set, place, dispatch, send. Compare French diastaltique.
1. In ancient Greek music:
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a. Dilated, extended: applied to certain intervals.
b. Applied to a style of melody fitted to expand or exalt the mind.
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1776 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music I. 69 Melopoeia was divided into three kinds: first, the Systaltic..secondly, the Diastaltic, or that which was capable of exhilerating.
2. Physiology. ‘A term applied by Marshall Hall to the actions termed reflex, inasmuch as they take place through the spinal cord’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon). diastaltic nervous system, term for the spinal nervous system.[Diastaltic appears to be here taken as = transmissive adj. ]
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1852 M. Hall (title) Synopsis of the Diastaltic Nervous System.
1855 A. B. Garrod Essentials Materia Medica (1877) 238 A reduction and final abolition of the diastaltic function of the spinal cord.
1879 Cornhill Mag. June 700 Is there anything in your essay about our diastaltic nerves?
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