Contractile

Definition of Contractile

Con`tract´ile
a.1.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.
- H. Brooke.
Each cilium seems to be composed of contractile substance.
- Hixley.
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.

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