preejection

1. not comparableOccurring prior to ejection.

   The preejection shortening and relengthening correspond to septal beaking and flash.

   2016, Catherine M. Otto, Practice of Clinical Echocardiography, →ISBN, page 141

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   The severity of damage to the aircraft in combat was responsible for more preejection injuries, unconsciousness, and allowed less time to prepare for ejection.

   1975, United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Missing Persons in Southeast Asia, Americans Missing in Southeast Asia

   Events in vomiting are usually divided into preejection, ejection, and postejection phases (Fig. 11-1 3). The preejection phase is characterized by licking, salivation, pallor, and changes in visceral function such as tachycardia and the relaxation of the proximal stomach.

   1995, Robert M. Bradley, Essentials of oral physiology, page 231

plural preejections · alternative pre-ejection

1. The time period immediately preceding ejection.

   During systole, two main phases occur: preejection and ejection.

   2008, T. Jeff Chandler, Lee E. Brown, Conditioning for Strength and Human Performance, →ISBN, page 22

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   We have therefore used the R-S₂ interval assuming that any prolongation that may occur is most likely a result of lengthening of R-S₁ (including preejection) rather than S₁-S₂ .

   1974, Critical Reviews in Bioengineering - Volume 2, page 156

   This is seen as abnormal rapid leftward motion of the septum during preejection followed by rightward (paradoxical) motion.

   2012, Catherine M. Otto, The Practice of Clinical Echocardiography, →ISBN, page 191