contractility Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the capability or quality of shrinking or contracting, especially by muscle fibers and even some other forms of living matter

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Con`trac*til"i*ty noun
Definitions
  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. ✍ 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.

Webster 1913