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Webster 1913 Edition
Contractility
Conˊtrac-til′i-ty
,Noun.
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.
☞ 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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Contractility
CONTRACTILITY
,Noun.
Definition 2024
contractility
contractility
English
Noun
contractility (plural contractilities)
- The condition of being able to contract or shrink (used especially of muscles)
- The extent to which something contracts or shrinks
- A term used in physiology to describe the performance of cardiac muscle