noun. In pathology, that condition in which a dilated and enfeebled heart remains continuously filled with blood on account of the inability of the left ventricle to discharge more than a small part of its contents. Also called asystolism.

noun. A weakening or cessation of the contractile power of the heart.

noun. Absence of systole; failure of the heart to contract.

noun. absence of systole; failure of the ventricles of the heart to contract (usually caused by ventricular fibrillation) with consequent absence of the heart beat leading to oxygen lack and eventually to death

"Other patients with less dramatic multi-organ system abnormalities have died from sudden cardiac asystole during the intermediate state of colchicine poisoning. 3"

asystolic  asystolism  

pathology  

cardiac arrest  cardiopulmonary arrest