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Asystole :: Asystole (n.) A weakening or cessation of the contractile power of the heart.

Regeneration :: Regeneration (n.) The reproduction or renewal of tissues, cells, etc., which have been used up and destroyed by the ordinary processes of life; as, the continual regeneration of the epithelial cells of the body, or the regeneration of the contractile substance of muscle..

Muscle :: Muscle (n.) The contractile tissue of which muscles are largely made up.

Pseudo-heart :: Pseudo-heart (n.) Any contractile vessel of invertebrates which is not of the nature of a real heart, especially one of those pertaining to the excretory system..

Dartos :: Dartos (n.) A thin layer of peculiar contractile tissue directly beneath the skin of the scrotum.

Stoma :: Stoma (n.) The minute breathing pores of leaves or other organs opening into the intercellular spaces, and usually bordered by two contractile cells..

Contractile :: Contractile (a.) tending to contract; having the power or property of contracting, or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions; as, the contractile tissues..

Iris :: Iris (n.) The contractile membrane perforated by the pupil, and forming the colored portion of the eye. See Eye..

Chromatophore :: Chromatophore (n.) A contractile cell or vesicle containing liquid pigment and capable of changing its form or size, thus causing changes of color in the translucent skin of such animals as possess them. They are highly developed and numerous in the cephalopods..

Vorticella :: Vorticella (n.) Any one of numerous species of ciliated Infusoria belonging to Vorticella and many other genera of the family Vorticellidae. They have a more or less bell-shaped body with a circle of vibrating cilia around the oral disk. Most of the species have slender, contractile stems, either simple or branched..

Atony :: Atony (n.) Want of tone; weakness of the system, or of any organ, especially of such as are contractile..

Myophan :: Myophan (n.) A contractile striated layer found in the bodies and stems of certain Infusoria.

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