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 contractility
 收縮性,縮小性,伸縮力

 con·trac·til·i·ty /ˌkɑnˌtrækˈtɪlətɪ/ 名詞
 收縮性

 Con·trac·til·i·ty n.
 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.
 Note: ☞ 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.
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 contractility
      n : the capability or quality of shrinking or contracting,
          especially by muscle fibers and even some other forms of
          living matter