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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Contractility \Con`trac*til"i*ty\, 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. Note: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: contractility n : the capability or quality of shrinking or contracting esp by muscle fibers and even some other forms of living matter
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