Thesaurus: contractility

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1. n. The quality or property by which bodies shrink or contract.
2. n. The power possessed by the fibers of living muscle of contracting or shortening.
3. n. the capability or quality of shrinking or contracting, especially by muscle fibers and even some other forms of living matter
4. 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.
5. The power possessed by the fibers of living muscle ofcontracting or shortening.
6. n:100 n. the capability or quality of shrinking or contracting, especially by muscle fibers and even some other forms of living matter