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contraction or
contracted in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Contraction may
refer to:
Contraction (grammar), a
shortened word
Poetic contraction, omission...
- ****l
contractions are
contractions of the
pelvic muscles surrounding the ****,
especially the
pubococcygeus muscle. ****l
contractions are generally...
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Braxton Hicks contractions, also
known as
practice contractions or
false labor, are
sporadic uterine contractions that may
start around six w****s into...
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phase of
contraction, and Ca2+ flux may be significant.
Although smooth muscle contractions are myogenic, the rate and
strength of
their contractions can be...
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Uterine contractions are
muscle contractions of the
uterine smooth muscle that can
occur at
various intensities in both the non-pregnant and
pregnant uterine...
- The main
contractions are
listed in the
following table.
Although can't, wouldn't and
other forms ending ‑n't
clearly started as
contractions, ‑n't is...
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Poetic contractions are
contractions of
words found in
poetry but not
commonly used in
everyday modern English. Also
known as
elision or syncope, these...
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Segmentation contractions (or movements) are a type of
intestinal motility.
Unlike peristalsis,
which predominates in the esophagus,
segmentation contractions occur...
- In
cardiac physiology,
isometric contraction is an
event occurring in
early systole during which the
ventricles contract with no
corresponding volume...
- 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...
