Definition of Contractilities

1. contractility [n] - See also: contractility

Lexicographical Neighbors of Contractilities

contracted pelvis
contractedly
contractedness
contractee
contractees
contractibilities
contractibility
contractible
contractibleness
contractile
contractile organ
contractile proteins
contractile ring
contractile stricture
contractile vacuole
contractilities (current term)
contractility
contracting
contraction
contraction band
contraction band necrosis
contraction stress test
contractional
contractionary
contractions
contractive
contractivity
contractless
contractor
contractor combatant

Literary usage of Contractilities

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The North American Medical and Surgical Journal by Kappa Lambda Association of the United States (1827)
"... the "organic sensible and insensible (visible and invisible) contractilities" do not differ in kind, but only in degree ; while the " animal sensibility ..."

2. Cavalry: Its History, Management, and Uses in War by Jean Roemer (1863)
"... the two sensibilities, the two contractilities, the two memories, the two volitions, the two expressions, and the two centres of gravity. ..."

3. The Ganglionic Nervous System: Its Structure, Functions, and Diseases by James George Davey (1858)
"... thus, the organic sensibility and the sensible and insensible contractilities survive the phenomena of digestion, secretion, and nutrition. ..."

4. Realistic Idealism in Philosophy Itself by Nathaniel Holmes (1888)
"... attractions, and repulsions, elasticities, contractilities, or electricities, oscillations, vibrations, waves, or kinetic mean paths, eddying vortices, ..."

5. The New-England Journal of Medicine and Surgery: And Collateral Branches of edited by Walter Channing, John Ware (1822)
"... 'ne sensible and insensible contractilities are constantly brought into action by a direct stimulus applied to the organ, whilst that of »'e ..."

6. Physiological Researches on Life and Death by Xavier Bichat (1827)
"... and are connected in the same way, as in the vital phenomena, the organic and animal sensibilities are related to their respective contractilities. ..."

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