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contraction or
contracted in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Contraction may
refer to:
Contraction (grammar), a
shortened word
Poetic contraction, omission...
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Muscle contraction is the
activation of tension-generating
sites within muscle cells. In physiology,
muscle contraction does not
necessarily mean muscle...
- In
cardiac physiology,
isometric contraction is an
event occurring in
early systole during which the
ventricles contract with no
corresponding volume...
- ****l
contractions are
contractions of the
pelvic muscles surrounding the ****,
especially the
pubococcygeus muscle. ****l
contractions are generally...
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Segmentation contractions (or movements) are a type of
intestinal motility.
Unlike peristalsis,
which predominates in the esophagus,
segmentation contractions occur...
- A
contraction is a
shortened version of the
spoken and
written forms of a word, syllable, or word group,
created by
omission of
internal letters and sounds...
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Length contraction is the
phenomenon that a
moving object's
length is
measured to be
shorter than its
proper length,
which is the
length as
measured in...
- In economics, a
recession is a
business cycle contraction that
occurs when
there is a
general decline in
economic activity.
Recessions generally occur...
- In mathematics, a
contraction mapping, or
contraction or contractor, on a
metric space (M, d) is a
function f from M to itself, with the
property that...
- A
tetanic contraction (also
called tetanized state, tet****, or
physiologic tet****, the
latter to
differentiate from the
disease called tet****) is a...
