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Contractility

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





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... accustomed internal pressure, undergoes in many cases dilatation at the seat of disease, constituting aneurism. In an atheromatous vessel, calcareous deposits soon occur, which render it rigid, brittle, and subject to ulceration or rupture. In such vessels the contractility is destroyed, the middle coat atrophied and beyond repair. Atheroma in the vessels of the brain is a frequent cause of cerebral apoplexy. No symptoms are manifested by which we can recognize ...
— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture


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