'Contractility' definitions:
Definition of 'contractility'
From: WordNet
noun
The capability or quality of shrinking or contracting, especially by muscle fibers and even some other forms of living matter
Definition of 'Contractility'
From: GCIDE
- Contractility \Con`trac*til"i*ty\, n.
- 1. The quality or property by which bodies shrink or contract. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Physiol.) The power possessed by the fibers of living muscle of contracting or shortening. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]