midsystolic

midsystolic (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the middle portion of systole, as with midsystolic murmur, midsystolic ejection, and midsystolic click.
   • 1973, Rizzon P; Biasco G; Brindicci G; Mauro F, “Familial syndrome of midsystolic click and late systolic murmur”, in British Heart Journal, volume 35, number 3, PMID 4692656, pages 245-259:

     Evidence has recently been produced to show that patients with a midsystolic click and late systolic murmur have a peculiar abnormality of the mitral valve: the systolic ballooning of the leaflets, particularly the posterior one, usually associated with mild mitral insufficiency.

• holosystolic
• pansystolic
• postsystolic
• presystolic