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And this muscular contractibility is a contraction of the fibres of the muscles.

From Mind Amongst the Spindles by Various

Cells are endowed with the properties of irritability, contractibility, assimilation and reproduction, and it is thus plainly to the study of cells that we must look for an interpretation of life phenomena.

From The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity by Conn, H. W. (Herbert William)

And "Upon this hint" the brain acts in its consequent reflections, and in the nervous impulses which induce muscular contractibility.

From Mind Amongst the Spindles by Various

The four properties of irritability, contractibility, assimilation, and reproduction, belong to these vital units—the cells, and it is these properties which we are trying to trace to their source as a foundation of vital activity.

From The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity by Conn, H. W. (Herbert William)

Rough and repulsive in appearance, and sluggish in habit, it has great power of contractibility.

From Confessions of a Beachcomber by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)