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muscle contraction

 
Noun muscle contraction has 1 sense
  1. contraction, muscular contraction, muscle contraction - (physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber)
    --1 is a kind of shortening
    --1 has particulars:
     contracture; tetanus; uterine contraction; Braxton-Hicks contraction, false labor; vaginismus
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