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stretto (iou) and sinus standstill (medicine)


stretto (iou)



stretto adverb & noun. M18.
[Italian, lit. 'narrow'.]
Music.
A. adverb. A direction: with gradually increasing speed (esp. with ref. to a final passage). M18.
B. noun. Pl. -tti [-ti], -ttos. A fugal device in which the subject entries follow closely in succession, each subject overlapping with the next. Also, = STRETTA. M19.
stretto maestrale a stretto of a fugue played in canon.

sinus standstill (medicine)


sinus standstill


Cessation of sinus node activity, marked by absence of normal P waves in the electrocardiogram.

Ventricular standstill, cessation of ventricular contractions, marked by absence of ventricular complexes in the electrocardiogram.