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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CONTRACTILITY

n.The inherent quality or force by which bodies shrink or contract.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CONTRACTILITY

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

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

2. (Physiol.)

Defn: 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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