About The Word Contractility
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Contractility
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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.
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