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Noun contractility has 1 sense

contractility(n = noun.attribute) - the capability or quality of shrinking or contracting, especially by muscle fibers and even some other forms of living matter;

is a kind of

ability

has particulars: astringency, stypsis

Derived form adjective contractile₁

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CIDE DICTIONARY

contractility, n.

The quality or property by which bodies shrink or contract. [1913 Webster]
The power possessed by the fibers of living muscle of contracting or shortening. [1913 Webster]
" 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." [1913 Webster]

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contractility

Contraction

N contraction, reduction, diminution, decrease of size, defalcation, decrement, lessening, shrinking, compaction, tabes, collapse, emaciation, attenuation, tabefaction, consumption, marasmus, atrophy, systole, neck, hourglass, condensation, compression, compactness, compendium, squeezing, strangulation, corrugation, astringency, astringents, sclerotics, contractility, compressibility, coarctation, inferiority in size, contracting, astringent, shrunk, contracted, strangulated, tabid, wizened, stunted, waning, neap, compact, unexpanded &c (expand), contractile, compressible, smaller &c (small).