NOUN
- (physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber)
How To Use muscular contraction In A Sentence
- Foods and fluids are mixed in the stomach by its muscular contractions.
- Laxatives irritate the lining of the intestines, thus causing muscular contractions.
- Rochelle salt, isomorphous replacement and phase determination, metal crystals and pepsin crystals, and speculated about muscular contraction. Nobel Lecture The X-Ray Analysis Of Complicated Molecules
- Biomechanics specialists have long known that snails and other limbless creatures locomote by sending waves of muscular contractions down their bodies.
- In the sea pansy, Renilla koellikeri, serotonin can stimulate rhythmic muscular contraction and spawning, and melatonin can inhibit these contractions.
- Foods and fluids are mixed in the stomach by its muscular contractions.
- Regardless of which isolation exercise I select, the plan is to curl the weight slowly and to go for a full muscular contraction.
- Muscular contraction reduces blood flow and oxygen supply to the brain that results in tension headache.
- Moving by puling himself along the ground through muscular contractions, the only clear sign of humanity or feeling in the big cartoon eyes and downturned mouth hovering in front of his downward curve.
- A current theory is that the eggs are ovulated through the cloacal pore and are expelled under pressure by muscular contractions.
