Definitions for "Diastasis"
A forcible separation of bones without fracture.
the distance between the left and right pubic bones in a patient with bladder exstrophy or cloacal exstrophy. If it is a big bladder the diastasis tends to be wider, and if the bladder is small the diastasis, or separation, tends to be more narrow.
separation of an epiphysis from the long bone to which it is normally attached without fracture of the bone
The slow phase of ventricular filling, which follows the rapid phase of ventricluar filling. It begins with when the ventricular pressure starts to rise after the rapid filling phase and ends with the onset of atrial systole. to the top