Contractility - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: contractilityContractile
tending to contract having the power or property of contracting or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions as the contractile tissues...
Chromatophore
A contractile cell or vesicle containing liquid pigment and capable of changing its form or size thus causing changes of color in the translucent skin of such animals as possess them They are highly developed and numerous in the cephalopods...
Contractility
The quality or property by which bodies shrink or contract...
Dartos
A thin layer of peculiar contractile tissue directly beneath the skin of the scrotum...
Motility
Capability of motion contractility...
Myophan
A contractile striated layer found in the bodies and stems of certain Infusoria...
Myosin
A protein present in muscle serving as the principle contractile protein in muscle contraction...
Pseudo heart
Any contractile vessel of invertebrates which is not of the nature of a real heart especially one of those pertaining to the excretory system...
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