Contractile /(?)/
Con·tract·ile
Contractile
a.
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tending to contract; having the power or property of contracting, or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions; as, the contractile tissues.
The heart's contractile force.
Each cilium seems to be composed of contractile substance.
Phrases & Compounds
- Contractile vacuole
- a pulsating cavity in the interior of a protozoan, supposed to be excretory in function. There may be one, two, or more.