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Definition of contractile in English Turkish dictionary
- kasılabilen
- büzülebilen
- kasılabilir
- kontraktil
- büzülür
- {s} kısılabilen
- (Tıp) Kısalma yeteneğine sebep olan, özellikle uyarıldığı zaman adale dokusunun başta gelen özelliği
- kısalır
- contractility
- kontraktilite
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Definition of contractile in English English dictionary
- Capable of contracting, or of being contracted
- {a} able to contract itself
- {s} able to contract, causing contraction (Zoology)
- tending to contract; having the power or property of contracting, or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions; as, the contractile tissues
- capable of contracting or being contracted; "the contractile wings of an insect
- capable of contracting or being contracted; "the contractile wings of an insect"
- contractile vacuole
- A vacuole that removes waste or excess water
- contractile organ
- a bodily organ that contracts
- contractile vacuole
- A membrane-bound organelle found in certain protists that pumps fluid in a cyclical manner from within the cell to the outside by alternately filling and then contracting to release its contents at various points on the surface of the cell. It functions in maintaining osmotic equilibrium
- arterio-contractile
- Undergoing contraction due to stimulation by arterial blood
Goodwyn conceived that the heart ceased to act because the left side, being only arterio-contractile, was incapable of being stimulated by venous blood; but this idea was fully disproved by the experiments of Bichat, which render it certain that the blood stimulates the ventricles not by its quality, but by its bulk. (Goodwyn on the Connex. of Life with Resp. pp. 82, 83; and Bichat, Sur la Vie et la Mort.).
- contractility
- The extent to which something contracts or shrinks
- contractility
- The condition of being able to contract or shrink (used especially of muscles)
- contractility
- {n} the power of contracting itself
- contractility
- The power possessed by the fibers of living muscle of contracting or shortening
- contractility
- A term used in physiology to describe the performance of cardiac muscle
- contractility
- The quality or property by which bodies shrink or contract
- contractility
- the capability or quality of shrinking or contracting, especially by muscle fibers and even some other forms of living matter
- contractility
- {i} contractile quality, state of being contractile (Zoology)
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