About The Word Contractility
Learn about the word Contractility to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Contractility definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.
Contractility
Contractility Definition And Meaning |
---|
What's The Definition Of Contractility?
[n] the capability or quality of shrinking or contracting esp by muscle fibers and even some other forms of living matter
Synonyms | Synonyms for Contractility: Related Terms | Find terms related to Contractility: See Also | ability | astringency | stypsis Contractility In Webster's Dictionary \Con`trac*til"i*ty\, n.
1. The quality or property by which bodies shrink or
contract.
2. (Physiol.) 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.
|
More Crossword Puzzle Words
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Cross Word Of The Day
- Jacques anatole francois thibault ‐ French writer of sophisticated novels and short stories…
- Terpsichore ‐ taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to…
- Conserve ‐ fruit preserved by cooking with sugar [v] preserve with sugar;…
- Euphagus ‐ a genus of…
- Order exocycloida ‐ flat…
- Cookie ‐ any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British…
- C and w ‐ a simple style of folk music heard mostly in the southern United…
- Common tarweed ‐ California annual having red-brown spots near the base of its…
- Scoreboard ‐ a large board for displaying the score of a contest (and some…
- Crop up ‐ appear suddenly or…