CONTRACTILITIES

Noun

contractilities

plural of contractility

Source: Wiktionary


CONTRACTILITY

Con`trac*til"i*ty, n.

1. The quality or property by which bodies shrink or contract.

2. (Physiol.)

Definition: The power possessed by the fibers of living muscle of contracting or shortening.

Note: When subject to the will, as in the muscles of locomotion, such power is called voluntary contractility; when not controlled by the will, as in the muscles of the heart, it is involuntary contractility.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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