单词 | contractile organ |
释义 | contractile organ (once / 3939771 pages) n WORD FAMILY contractile organ: contractile organs USAGE EXAMPLESThe muscles are the contractile organs that move the body. Craig, R. A., D. V. M., Common Diseases of Farm Animals(2010) n a bodily organ that contracts Syn|Hypo|Hyper contractor muscle, musculus one of the contractile organs of the body skeletal muscle, striated musclea muscle that is connected at either or both ends to a bone and so move parts of the skeleton; a muscle that is characterized by transverse stripes pronatora muscle that produces or assists in pronation supinatora muscle (especially in the forearm) that produces or assists in supination levatora muscle that serves to lift some body part (as the eyelid or lip) antagonistic muscle(physiology) a muscle that opposes the action of another eye muscle, ocular muscleone of the small muscles of the eye that serve to rotate the eyeball rectusany of various straight muscles involuntary muscle, smooth musclea muscle that contracts without conscious control and found in walls of internal organs such as stomach and intestine and bladder and blood vessels (excluding the heart) anatomical sphincter, sphincter, sphincter musclea ring of muscle that contracts to close an opening tensorany of several muscles that cause an attached structure to become tense or firm organ a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function |
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