Contractility
contractility (?), n.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.
f 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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