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diastaltic, a.|daɪəˈstæltɪk|
[f. Gr. διασταλτικός serving to distinguish, in Music ‘able to expand or exalt the mind’, f. διαστέλλειν to separate, put asunder, f. διά apart + στέλλειν to set, place, dispatch, send. Cf. F. diastaltique.]
1. In ancient Greek music:
a. Dilated, extended: applied to certain intervals.
b. Applied to a style of melody fitted to expand or exalt the mind.
1774Burney Hist. Mus. (1789) I. v. 61 Melopœia was divided into three kinds..the second, Diastaltic or that which was capable of exhilarating.
2. Phys. ‘A term applied by Marshall Hall to the actions termed reflex, inasmuch as they take place through the spinal cord’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
diastaltic nervous system, term for the spinal nervous system.[Diastaltic appears to be here taken as = transmissive.] 1852M. Hall (title), Synopsis of the Diastaltic Nervous System. 1855Garrod Mat. Med. (ed. 6) 238 A reduction and final abolition of the diastaltic function of the spinal cord. 1879Cornh. Mag. June 700 Is there anything in your essay about our diastaltic nerves? |