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Tetanic :: Tetanic (a.) Producing, or tending to produce, tetanus, or tonic contraction of the muscles; as, a tetanic remedy. See Tetanic, n..

Soph :: Soph (n.) A contraction of Sophomore.

Convulsion :: Convulsion (n.) An unnatural, violent, and unvoluntary contraction of the muscular parts of an animal body..

Spasm :: Spasm (v. t.) An involuntary and unnatural contraction of one or more muscles or muscular fibers.

I''ve :: I've () Colloquial contraction of I have.

Styptic :: Styptic (a.) Producing contraction; stopping bleeding; having the quality of restraining hemorrhage when applied to the bleeding part; astringent.

Soph :: Soph (n.) A contraction of Soph ister.

Wa''n''t :: Wa'n't () A colloquial contraction of was not.

Strangury :: Strangury (n.) A painful discharge of urine, drop by drop, produced by spasmodic muscular contraction..

Fore :: Fore (prep.) Before; -- sometimes written 'fore as if a contraction of afore or before.

An't :: An't () A contraction for are and am not; also used for is not; -- now usually written ain't.

Sphincter :: Sphincter (n.) A muscle which surrounds, and by its contraction tends to close, a natural opening; as, the sphincter of the bladder..

Coz :: Coz (n.) A contraction of cousin.

Hiccough :: Hiccough (n.) A modified respiratory movement; a spasmodic inspiration, consisting of a sudden contraction of the diaphragm, accompanied with closure of the glottis, so that further entrance of air is prevented, while the impulse of the column of air entering and striking upon the closed glottis produces a sound, or hiccough..

Systyle :: Systolic (a.) Of or pertaining to systole, or contraction; contracting; esp., relating to the systole of the heart; as, systolic murmur..

Myograph :: Myograph (n.) An instrument for determining and recording the different phases, as the intensity, velocity, etc., of a muscular contraction..

Systolic :: Systole (n.) The contraction of the heart and arteries by which the blood is forced onward and the circulation kept up; -- correlative to diastole.

Labialize :: Labialize (v. t.) To modify by contraction of the lip opening.

Whatsoe''er :: Whatsoe'er (pron.) A contraction of whatsoever; -- used in poetry.

Ta''en :: Ta'en () p. p. of Ta, to take, or a contraction of Taken..

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