Antonym: expansion. Similar words: contradiction, contract, contractor, social contract, traction, subtraction, retraction, detraction. Meaning: [kən'trækʃn] 
n. 1. (physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber) 2. the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together 3. a word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds 4. the act of decreasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope.
n. 1. (physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber) 2. the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together 3. a word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds 4. the act of decreasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope. 
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121 Objective: To observe the effect of Areca nut decoction on gastric smooth muscle contraction of rats with functional dyspepsia.
122 Transmembrane signal transmission functions of cell; The mechanics of muscle contraction.
123 Stability of equilibrium in an oligopoly market has important implications. This paper focuses on the stability condition of equilibrium by using contraction mapping and fixed point principle.
124 As you know, this repeated muscle contraction causes facial lines and wrinkles to form BOTOX?
125 That is, the world slump drove the trade contraction rather the other way around.
126 Note:Figures on"Gross Output Value"are of general contracting and professional contraction construction enterprises.
127 I step up the breathing rate -- timing the contraction and relaxation of chest muscles.
128 The results of our study demonstrate that, at dopamine tachyphylaxis of canine tracheal smooth muscle,[Sentencedict] histamine treatment could recover the contraction to dopamine.
129 The medicine combination can regulated the contraction and the relaxation of cerebral vasospasm in bidirectional way and has significant curative effect on the angioneurotic headache.
130 Successful reinnervation of one sacral nerve has been shown to allow voluntary eliciting of a detrusor contraction; however, its efficacy is expected to be limited by several facts.
131 Erosive action is achieved at each contraction where a pair of opposing vanes are installed.
132 Because of drainage, sweep, slight heat expansion, and contraction, etc. there should be some proper interstice among the edges and the ends.
133 Objective To compare therapeutic effects of acupuncture and western medicine on silent heart failure(SHF) and investigate their effects on left ventricular contraction function.
134 Conclusion: Misprostol has a stronger efficacy on uterine contraction , and has a safe prevention of postpartum hemorrhage in the parturient with high risk factor.
135 By introducing weighted norm and using the Banach contraction mapping principle we obtain the existence of throughout positive solutions for the above equations.
136 Also, some nervous systems randomly fire, causing seeming symptoms of involuntary muscular contraction.
137 When the initial power equals the critical power, a stabile spatial soliton is obtained, and generally the beam width takes periodical contraction or diffraction.
138 The human movements are achieved by muscular contraction and relaxation controlled by nervous system.
139 In this paper, several common fixed theorems for nonlinear, contraction mapping are proved on probabilistic metric spaces.
140 In the case of heavy load when the advance ratio of propeller is small, the contraction of wake has large effect on the performance of the propeller.
141 This contraction increases the volume of the thoracic cavity and lowers the pressure inside the lungs.
142 Calcium antagonists canlunwen 114 prevent vascular smooth muscle contraction caused by the vasospasm.
143 And typically steeper the economic contraction and decline in employment, the faster the recovery.
144 Experiments have proved that when the arteriole produce durative contraction, skeletal muscle cramps occur, numbness, etc.
145 The surface electromyograph(EMG) signals (SEMGs) are a complex interference pattern of the electrical activity during muscle contraction.
146 To prevent postpartum hemorrhage, we could select proper style and opportunity of childbearing, enhance care after childbearing, observe uterine contraction and outflow volume of vagina intimately.
147 This paper focuses on the stability condition of equilibrium by using contraction mapping and fixed point principle.
148 Conclusion The affected mothers should receive treatment actively to prevent uterine contraction and reduce the death or disease rate of perinatal child.
149 In this paper, to 1-set contraction random operator equation, the author explained the conception of couple solution, obtained existence theorem of couple solution.
150 The mother pushes with each contraction, while the doctor pulls the ventouse.
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