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Contractile   Listen
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Contractile  adj.  Tending to contract; having the power or property of contracting, or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions; as, the contractile tissues. "The heart's contractile force." "Each cilium seems to be composed of contractile substance."
Contractile vacuole (Zool.), a pulsating cavity in the interior of a protozoan, supposed to be excretory in function. There may be one, two, or more.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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