CONTRACTILITY
\kɒntɹɐktˈɪlɪti], \kɒntɹɐktˈɪlɪti], \k_ɒ_n_t_ɹ_ɐ_k_t_ˈɪ_l_ɪ_t_i]\
Definitions of CONTRACTILITY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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the capability or quality of shrinking or contracting, especially by muscle fibers and even some other forms of living matter
By Princeton University
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Capable of contraction.
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The quality or property by which bodies shrink or contract.
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The power possessed by the fibers of living muscle of contracting or shortening.
By Oddity Software
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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hat vital property, which gives, to certain parts, the power of contracting. The muscles of locomotion are endowed with a power of voluntary contractility,or one dependent immediately on the action of the brain: - the muscles of the viscera of digestion, and other internal organs, enjoy an involuntary contractility. Contractility and irritability are frequently used synonymously to signify the property possessed by an tissue of contraction the application of an appropriate stimulus.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Capacity for or tendency to contraction; especially capacity for responding to stimulation by movement.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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