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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 contractility
 收縮性,縮小性,伸縮力

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

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

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 contractility
      n : the capability or quality of shrinking or contracting,
          especially by muscle fibers and even some other forms of
          living matter