contractility
the property, as of muscle or other tissue, of being able to contract, or draw itself together, reducing its dimensions:Improvements in the contractility of the heart can be measured by a number of different methods to determine how much blood the heart pumps with each beat.
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Passing, now, to the other side of elasticity—i.e., contractility—can we say as much?
Readings in Money and Banking | Chester Arthur PhillipsThe case for emergency contractility, however, is somewhat better than the case for ordinary contractility.
Readings in Money and Banking | Chester Arthur PhillipsA second set of cells should form muscle endowed mainly with contractility.
The Whence and the Whither of Man | John Mason TylerIt is generally supposed that the upper side of the tendril of Passiflora is devoid of contractility.
Life Movements in Plants, Volume II, 1919 | Sir Jagadis Chunder BoseMany forms are motile—some in virtue of fine thread-like flagella, and others through contractility of the protoplasm.
Manual of Surgery | Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles
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