contractility
noun1
The condition of being able to contract or shrink (used especially of muscles).
2
The extent to which something contracts or shrinks.
3
Medicine, Physiology, Sciences The performance of cardiac muscle.
- Derived terms
- acontractility, electrocontractility, faradocontractility, galvanocontractility, hypercontractility, hypocontractility, vasocontractility
- Related terms
- contractile