contractility
IPA: kˈɑntræktˈɪɫʌti
noun
- The condition of being able to contract or shrink (used especially of muscles).
- The extent to which something contracts or shrinks.
- (physiology) The performance of cardiac muscle.
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Examples of "contractility" in Sentences
- A tocolytic acts to oppose uterine contractility.
- This leads to increased contractility of the heart.
- NO contributes to the regulation of cardiac contractility.
- The movements of the lobster are due to muscular contractility.
- Contractility can be altered through the administration of inotropic agents .
- Neurohumoral, cellular and molecular mechanisms regulating airway contractility
- ISOM: The echocardiogram tells you about the valves and the thickness of the heart and contractility how well it's pumping.
- ISOM: An echocardiogram tells you about the valves and the thickness of the heart and the contractility, how well it's pumping.
- When the muscles are put into action, what is termed their contractility is called into play — that is, the force which was dormant before is roused into activity.
- When the muscles are put into action, what is termed their contractility is called into play -- that is, the force which was dormant before is roused into activity.
- They possessed indeed properties, such as contractility, which were not inorganic, but as far as their visible structure was concerned there was little to raise them above the inorganic level.
- Austin JC, Chacko SK, DiSanto M, Canning DA, Zderic SA: A male murine model of partial bladder outlet obstruction reveals changes in detrusor morphology, contractility and myosin isoform expression.
- And not only was this gradually discovered, but it was found that these semifluid contents of the plant cell had, in many cases, a remarkable power of contractility quite like that of the substance of animals.
- Echocardiography found typical features of early recipient twin cardiomyopathy, with thickening and decreased contractility of the wall of the right ventricle and abnormal function (regurgitation) of the tricuspid valve connecting the right atrium to the right ventricle.