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Halt :: Halt () 3d pers. sing. pres. of Hold, contraction for holdeth..

Wrinkle :: Wrinkle (n.) A small ridge, prominence, or furrow formed by the shrinking or contraction of any smooth substance; a corrugation; a crease; a slight fold; as, wrinkle in the skin; a wrinkle in cloth..

Presystolic :: Presystolic (a.) Preceding the systole or contraction of the heart; as, the presystolic friction sound..

Shrinkage :: Shrinkage (n.) The amount of such contraction; the bulk or dimension lost by shrinking, as of grain, castings, etc..

Laxator :: Laxator (n.) That which loosens; -- esp., a muscle which by its contraction loosens some part..

Intake :: Intake (n.) the beginning of a contraction or narrowing in a tube or cylinder.

Origin :: Origin (n.) The point of attachment or end of a muscle which is fixed during contraction; -- in contradistinction to insertion.

Myography :: Myography (n.) The description of muscles, including the study of muscular contraction by the aid of registering apparatus, as by some form of myograph; myology..

Tonicity :: Tonicity (n.) The state of healthy tension or partial contraction of muscle fibers while at rest; tone; tonus.

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

Volvulus :: Volvulus (n.) The spasmodic contraction of the intestines which causes colic.

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

Stunted :: Stunsail (n.) A contraction of Studding sail.

Swom :: Swoln () Contraction of Swollen, p. p..

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

Contraction :: Contraction (n.) Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word or phrase; -- as, plenipo for plenipotentiary; crim. con. for criminal conversation, etc..

Godspeed :: Godspeed (n.) Success; prosperous journeying; -- a contraction of the phrase, God speed you..

Pulmograde :: Pulmograde (a.) Swimming by the expansion and contraction, or lunglike movement, of the body, or of the disk, as do the medusae..

Rounded :: Rounded (a.) Modified by contraction of the lip opening; labialized; labial. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 11..

Excito-motory :: Excito-motory (a.) Exciting motion; -- said of that portion of the nervous system concerned in reflex actions, by which impressions are transmitted to a nerve center and then reflected back so as to produce muscular contraction without sensation or volition..

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