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up contraction or contracted in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Contraction may refer to: Contraction (grammar), a shortened word Poetic contraction, omission...

Muscle contraction is the activation of tension-generating sites within muscle cells. In physiology, muscle contraction does not necessarily mean muscle...

Vaginal contractions are contractions of the pelvic muscles surrounding the vagina, especially the pubococcygeus muscle. Vaginal contractions are generally...

Length contraction is the phenomenon that a moving object's length is measured to be shorter than its proper length, which is the length as measured in...

Segmentation contractions (or movements) are a type of intestinal motility. Unlike peristalsis, which predominates in the esophagus, segmentation contractions occur...

A contraction is a shortened version of the spoken and written forms of a word, syllable, or word group, created by omission of internal letters and sounds...

a given Lie group a different (non-isomorphic) Lie group by a group contraction with respect to a continuous subgroup of it. That amounts to a limiting...

A tetanic contraction (also called tetanized state, tetanus, or physiologic tetanus, the latter to differentiate from the disease called tetanus) is a...

The Great Contraction, as characterized by economist Milton Friedman, was the recessionary period from 1929 until 1933, i.e., the early years of the Great...

In mathematics, a contraction mapping, or contraction or contractor, on a metric space (M, d) is a function f from M to itself, with the property that...

Uterine contractions are muscle contractions of the uterine smooth muscle that can occur at various intensities in both the non-pregnant and pregnant uterine...

Braxton Hicks contractions, also known as practice contractions or false labor, are sporadic uterine contractions that occur during pregnancy, but before...

In economics, a recession is a business cycle contraction that occurs when there is a period of broad decline in economic activity. Recessions generally...

In cardiac physiology, isometric contraction is an event occurring in early systole during which the ventricles contract with no corresponding volume...

Contraction alkalosis refers to the increase in blood pH that occurs as a result of fluid losses (volume contraction). The change in pH is especially pronounced...

The lanthanide contraction is the greater-than-expected decrease in atomic radii and ionic radii of the elements in the lanthanide series, from left to...

In mathematics, the Banach fixed-point theorem (also known as the contraction mapping theorem or contractive mapping theorem or Banach–Caccioppoli theorem)...

functional, contractile units of the muscle fiber necessary for muscle contraction. Muscles are predominantly powered by the oxidation of fats and carbohydrates...

In computer science, the method of contraction hierarchies is a speed-up technique for finding the shortest path in a graph. The most intuitive applications...

In an isotonic contraction, tension remains the same, whilst the muscle's length changes. By contrast, in isokinetic contractions, the muscle speed remains...

Volume contraction is a decrease in the volume of body fluid, including the dissolved substances that maintain osmotic balance (osmolytes). The loss of...

The actinide contraction is the greater-than-expected decrease in atomic radii and ionic radii of the elements in the actinide series, from left to right...

In graph theory, an edge contraction is an operation that removes an edge from a graph while simultaneously merging the two vertices that it previously...

A premature ventricular contraction (PVC) is a common event where the heartbeat is initiated by Purkinje fibers in the ventricles rather than by the sinoatrial...

In multilinear algebra, a tensor contraction is an operation on a tensor that arises from the canonical pairing of a vector space and its dual. This example...

The sliding filament theory explains the mechanism of muscle contraction based on muscle proteins that slide past each other to generate movement. According...

The Expansionary Fiscal Contraction (EFC) hypothesis predicts that, under certain circumstances, a major reduction in government spending (such as austerity...

It is a place where the cross section area is minimal. The maximum contraction takes place at a section slightly downstream of the orifice, where the...

(nu)) is a measure of the Poisson effect, the deformation (expansion or contraction) of a material in directions perpendicular to the specific direction...

The d-block contraction (sometimes called scandide contraction) is a term used in chemistry to describe the effect of having full d orbitals on the period...

used for basic literacy; contracted – an addition of abbreviations and contractions used as a space-saving mechanism; and grade 3 – various non-standardized...

Poetic contractions are contractions of words found in poetry but not commonly used in everyday modern English. Also known as elision or syncope, these...

is progression of coordinated contraction of involuntary circular muscles, which is preceded by a simultaneous contraction of the longitudinal muscle and...

muscle in terms of structure, function, regulation of contraction, and excitation-contraction coupling. However, smooth muscle tissue tends to demonstrate...

in mathematics, and in statistical physics, the Asano contraction or Asano–Ruelle contraction is a transformation on a separately affine multivariate...

simultaneity, kinematic and gravitational time dilation, and length contraction. In the field of physics, relativity improved the science of elementary...

In graph theory, a deletion-contraction formula / recursion is any formula of the following recursive form: f ( G ) = f ( G ∖ e ) + f ( G / e ) . {\displaystyle...

quality of life. People may report pain, aching, and itching with the contractions. Normally, the palmar fascia consists of collagen type I, but in Dupuytren...

displacement of Muslims out of the Balkans during the era of territorial contraction of the Ottoman Empire has become a topic of recent scholarly interest...

usually contract with decreasing temperature which is called thermal contraction. The SI unit of thermal expansion is the inverse kelvin (K−1). Temperature...

Ring expansion and ring contraction reactions expand or contract rings, usually in organic chemistry. The term usually refers to reactions involve making...

In algebraic geometry, a contraction morphism is a surjective projective morphism f : X → Y {\displaystyle f:X\to Y} between normal projective varieties...

An isometric exercise is an exercise involving the static contraction of a muscle without any visible movement in the angle of the joint. The term "isometric"...

A contraction stress test (CST) is performed near the end of pregnancy (34 weeks' gestation) to determine how well the fetus will cope with the contractions...

mathematics, Blackwell's contraction mapping theorem provides a set of sufficient conditions for an operator to be a contraction mapping. It is widely used...

In computer science, parallel tree contraction is a broadly applicable technique for the parallel solution of a large number of tree problems, and is...

during stimulation prior to ejaculating. Ejaculation involves involuntary contractions of the pelvic floor and is normally linked with orgasm. It is a normal...

sudden involuntary contraction of a muscle, a group of muscles, or a hollow organ, such as the bladder. A spasmodic muscle contraction may be caused by...

"Contraction" (Chinese: 坍缩, Pinyin: tānsuō) is a science-fiction short story by Chinese writer Liu Cixin. It was published in Science Fiction World in...

reflexive contraction of the external anal sphincter upon stroking of the skin around the anus. A noxious or tactile stimulus will cause a wink contraction of...

In mathematics, contraction principle may refer to: Contraction principle (large deviations theory), a theorem that states how a large deviation principle...

and early 20th centuries, persecution of Muslims during the Ottoman contraction and in the Russian Empire resulted in large-scale loss of life and mass...

A premature atrial contraction (PAC), also known as atrial premature complex (APC) or atrial premature beat (APB), is a common arrhythmia characterized...

and refills with blood, called diastole, following a period of robust contraction and pumping of blood, called systole. After emptying, the heart relaxes...

intense sexual pleasure resulting in rhythmic, involuntary muscular contractions in the pelvic region. Orgasms are controlled by the involuntary or autonomic...

Within the muscle tissue of animals and humans, contraction and relaxation of the muscle cells (myocytes) is a highly regulated and rhythmic process....

I'll may refer to "I'll", meaning "I will" or "I shall", a contraction (grammar) I'll (manga) "I'll", a song by Band-Maid from Unleash "I'll", a song...

Isolytic contraction is when a muscle contracts while external forces cause it to lengthen. For example, during a controlled lowering of the weight in...

and Paul Taylor. Graham technique is based on the opposition between "contraction and release", and the idea that movement starts in the torso, from breath...

Contraction band necrosis is a type of uncontrolled cell death (necrosis) unique to cardiac myocytes and thought to arise in reperfusion from hypercontraction...

Contraction and Convergence (C&C) is a proposed global framework for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to combat climate change. Conceived by the Global...

Smooth muscle cells control involuntary movements such as the peristalsis contractions in the esophagus and stomach. Smooth muscle has no myofibrils or sarcomeres...

be a contraction if its operator norm ||T || ≤ 1. Every bounded operator becomes a contraction after suitable scaling. The analysis of contractions provides...

In mathematics contraction theorem may refer to: The Banach contraction mapping theorem in functional analysis Castelnuovo's contraction theorem in algebraic...

Tension headache, stress headache, or tension-type headache (TTH) is the most common type of primary headache. The pain usually radiates from the lower...

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examination and anorectal manometry were shown to cause paradoxical sphincter contraction in healthy controls, who did not have constipation or incontinence. Due...

decision was made due to economic reasons, as the teams targeted for contraction, reportedly the Minnesota Twins and the Montreal Expos, had "a long record...

attainable value for the force of contraction of a given heart. The ability to produce changes in force during contraction result from incremental degrees...

stromal and vascular tissue. Its main function is to induce uterine contractions. The myometrium is located between the endometrium (the inner layer of...

Tetany or tetanic seizure is a medical sign consisting of the involuntary contraction of muscles, which may be caused by disorders that increase the action...

In mathematics, Castelnuovo's contraction theorem is used in the classification theory of algebraic surfaces to construct the minimal model of a given...

languages there is a process similar but not identical to elision, called contraction, where common words that occur frequently together form a shortened pronunciation...

Y'all (pronounced /jɔːl/ yawl) is a contraction of you all, sometimes combined as you-all. Y'all is the main second-person plural pronoun in Southern...

neurological disorder characterized by intermittent, involuntary spasms and contractions of the orbicularis oculi (eyelid) muscles around both eyes. These result...

hematocrit and hemoglobin are temporarily increased by reflex splenic contraction, which discharges a large additional amount of red blood cells. The brain...

twelfth rib. Contraction of one of the pair of muscles causes lateral flexion of the lumbar spine, elevation of the pelvis, or both. Contraction of both causes...

{\displaystyle {\hat {A}}} and B ^ {\displaystyle {\hat {B}}} we define their contraction to be A ^ ∙ B ^ ∙ ≡ A ^ B ^ − : A ^ B ^ : {\displaystyle {\hat {A}}^{\bullet...

of contraction of an edge ( u , v ) {\displaystyle (u,v)} in an undirected graph G = ( V , E ) {\displaystyle G=(V,E)} . Informally, the contraction of...

two to sixteen soldiers and called "corporal's guard"). The word is a contraction from the medieval Italian phrase capo corporale (transl. head of a body...

on the right. Known as monotonicity of entailment in classical logic. Contraction, where two equal (or unifiable) members on the same side of a sequent...

flow constant within the blood vessel. Myogenic response refers to a contraction initiated by the myocyte itself instead of an outside occurrence or stimulus...

The Eschenmoser sulfide contraction is an organic reaction first described by Albert Eschenmoser for the synthesis of 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds from a...

reasoned that either their model would not apply or that gravitational contraction would not stop. John Archibald Wheeler and two of his students resolved...

both tonic and clonic contractions, with tonic contractions usually preceding clonic contractions. After these series of contractions, there is an extended...

solidification temperature to room temperature, which occurs due to thermal contraction. Most materials shrink as they solidify, but, as the adjacent table shows...

This training focuses on learning to move from a muscle extension to a contraction in a rapid or "explosive" manner, such as in specialized repeated jumping...

process that may occur during wound healing when an excess of wound contraction, a normal healing process, leads to physical deformity characterized...

{\displaystyle f(I)} need not be an ideal of S; see also § Extension and contraction of an ideal. Ideal correspondence: Given a surjective ring homomorphism...

stimulation (NMES) or electromyostimulation, is the elicitation of muscle contraction using electrical impulses. EMS has received attention for various reasons:...

response to an increase in the volume of blood in the ventricles, before contraction (the end diastolic volume), when all other factors remain constant. As...

as viewed from S. Therefore, they are all subject to the same Lorentz contraction, so the entire assembly seems to be equally contracted in the S frame...

graph obtained from G by edge contractions and vertex and edge deletions. The Hadwiger number is also known as the contraction clique number of G or the homomorphism...

students, Hartland Snyder, produced the paper "On Continued Gravitational Contraction", which predicted the existence of what later became termed black holes...

(residual muscle tension or tonus) is the continuous and passive partial contraction of the muscles, or the muscle's resistance to passive stretch during...

atrioventricular valves which prevent back flow from one chamber to the next during contraction. Being myogenic, the heart's pace is maintained by pacemaker cells found...

Her heart rhythm is very irregular, with many premature ventricular contractions heard. Problems playing this file? See media help. A premature heart...

Monetary policy is the policy adopted by the monetary authority of a nation to affect monetary and other financial conditions to accomplish broader objectives...

from Latin for "sob, hiccup"; also spelled hiccough) is an involuntary contraction (myoclonic jerk) of the diaphragm that may repeat several times per minute...

contraction of the entire heart. There are specific proteins expressed in cardiac muscle cells. These are mostly associated with muscle contraction,...

some very familiar companies are also contractions. For example, Toshiba, Japanese Tōshiba (東芝), is a contraction or portmanteau of Tōkyo Shibaura (東京芝浦)...

described. The upward deflections are the "a" (atrial contraction), "c" (ventricular contraction and resulting bulging of tricuspid into the right atrium...

plasma membrane can increase as a result of either exercise or muscle contraction. During exercise, the body needs to convert glucose to ATP to be used...

(scheduled to expand to 18 by 2030). This article includes expansions, contractions, and relocations. Current member Former member Relocated member Future...

The Haline contraction coefficient, abbreviated as β, is a coefficient that describes the change in ocean density due to a salinity change, while the...

to the actin cross-bridge binding sites, permitting muscle contraction. Muscle contraction ends when calcium ions are pumped back into the sarcoplasmic...

beats include premature atrial contractions, premature ventricular contractions and premature junctional contractions. Supraventricular tachycardias include...

ventricles now perform isovolumetric contraction, which is contraction while all valves are closed. This contraction ends the first stage of systole. The...

ventricular contraction (PVC), a pause, another normal beat, and then another PVC. In atrial bigeminy, the other "twin" is a premature atrial contraction (PAC)...

erector muscles, are small muscles attached to hair follicles in mammals. Contraction of these muscles causes the hairs to stand on end, known colloquially...

continuous maximal contraction to prevent leakage of faeces or gases. Sympathetic stimulation stimulates and maintains the sphincter's contraction, and parasympathetic...

and early 20th centuries, persecution of Muslims during the Ottoman contraction and in the Russian Empire resulted in large-scale loss of life and mass...

along with their inflected forms, is shown in the following table. Contractions are only shown if their orthography is distinctive. There are also numerous...

the main candidate for the source of solar energy was gravitational contraction. However, it soon was recognized by Sir Arthur Eddington and others that...

nervous system, albeit not engaging cortical structures until after the contraction has occurred.[citation needed] The different muscle types vary in their...

fasciculation, or muscle twitch, is a spontaneous, involuntary muscle contraction and relaxation, involving fine muscle fibers. They are common, with as...

women giving birth for the first time, Braxton Hicks contractions are mistaken for actual contractions, but they are instead a way for the body to prepare...

and are difficult to separate. The d-block contraction is less pronounced than the lanthanide contraction but arises from a similar cause. In this case...

muscle decreases the vaginal opening. They play a role in the vaginal contractions of orgasm by causing the vestibular bulbs to contract. The tissues of...

material types and constraints. Temperature gradients, thermal expansion or contraction and thermal shocks are things that can lead to thermal stress. This type...

motor neuron to transmit a signal to the muscle fiber, causing muscle contraction. Muscles require innervation to function—and even just to maintain muscle...

The pharyngeal reflex or gag reflex is a reflex muscular contraction of the back of the throat, evoked by touching the roof of the mouth, back of the...

T-tubule structure and function are affected beat-by-beat by cardiomyocyte contraction, as well as by diseases, potentially contributing to heart failure and...

Premature junctional contractions (PJCs), also called atrioventricular junctional premature complexes or junctional extrasystole, are premature cardiac...

Cardiac excitation-contraction coupling (Cardiac EC coupling) describes the series of events, from the production of an electrical impulse (action potential)...

via the same nerve; a muscle which works to adduct the eye. Thus, co-contraction of the muscles takes place, limiting the amount of movement achievable...

These include the equivalence of mass and energy (E = mc2), length contraction (moving objects shorten), Terrell rotation (apparent rotation), and time...

operators on Banach spaces. It is sometimes stated for the special case of contraction semigroups, with the general case being called the Feller–Miyadera–Phillips...

Latin, from Greek a- 'not', 'without' + systolē 'contraction') is the absence of ventricular contractions in the context of a lethal heart arrhythmia, in...

states that, for a fixed contraction T, the polynomial functional calculus map is itself a contraction. For a contraction T acting on a Hilbert space...

Henry Pickering Bowditch in 1871 for the contraction of heart muscle. An induction shock produces a contraction or fails to do so according to its strength;...

owners voted in favor of contraction. Several MLB teams had been considered for elimination in early talks about contraction, but the Montreal Expos and...

The Tensor Contraction Engine (TCE) is a compiler for a domain-specific language that allows chemists to specify the computation in a high-level Mathematica-style...

useful mathematical properties. The wave function is encoded as a tensor contraction of a network of individual tensors. The structure of the individual tensors...

(near the speed of light) and therefore undergoing a Lorentz length contraction. The ladder is imagined passing through the open front and rear doors...

by Celtic, ten points ahead of Heart of Midlothian. Due to a league contraction to ten teams Falkirk, Dunfermline Athletic and Morton were relegated...

spread of the other. Distribution A is said to be a mean-preserving contraction of B if B is a mean-preserving spread of A. Ranking gambles by mean-preserving...

which repeat along the length of the myofibril in sections or units of contraction called sarcomeres. Muscles contract by sliding the thick myosin, and...

biology of wound contraction, which can be modelled in vitro using the collagen gel contraction assay or the dermal equivalent model. Contraction commences approximately...

the force or energy of muscular contractions. Negatively inotropic agents weaken the force of muscular contractions. Positively inotropic agents increase...

rate. An eccentric contraction is one of two distinct phases in the movement of muscles and tendons, following concentric contraction (shortening). An eccentric...

experience "partial" SPS, also called "stiff-limb syndrome", where the muscle contractions and stiffness are limited to the limbs, or sometimes a single limb. This...

contribute to inhalation and exhalation, by aiding in the expansion and contraction of the thoracic cavity. The diaphragm and, to a lesser extent, the intercostal...

The suffix -ly in English is usually a contraction of -like, similar to the Anglo-Saxon -lice and German -lich. It is often added to an adjective to form...

many tiny strands called fibrils, impulses from nerve cells control the contraction of each muscle fiber. Skeletal muscle, is a type of striated muscle,...

caused by barriers to or interference with the different stages of muscle contraction. There are two main causes of muscle fatigue: the limitations of a nerve's...

The Dreamachine (a contraction of Dream Machine), invented in 1959 by Brion Gysin and Ian Sommerville, is a stroboscopic flickering light art device that...

Niedergerke. Together they discovered in 1954 the mechanism of muscle contraction, popularly called the "sliding filament theory", which is the foundation...

Rao–Blackwell theorem, and is also known for the Blackwell channel, Blackwell's contraction mapping theorem, Blackwell's approachability theorem, and the Blackwell...

surrounding the margin of the anus. It exhibits a resting state of tonic contraction and also contracts during the bulbospongiosus reflex. The external anal...

Tzimtzum or tsimtsum (Hebrew: צִמְצוּם, romanized: ṣimṣum, lit. 'contraction, constriction, condensation') is a term used in Lurianic Kabbalah to explain...

cochleostapedial reflex or intra-aural reflex) is an involuntary muscle contraction that occurs in the middle ear in response to loud sound stimuli or when...

Fibrillation is the rapid, irregular, and unsynchronized contraction of muscle fibers. An important occurrence is with regard to the heart. There are...

The Purkinje fibers transmit the signals more rapidly to stimulate contraction of the ventricles. The conduction system consists of specialized heart...

the birth of the placenta during the third. During the first stage, contractions gradually become stronger and closer together. The postpartum period...

Kohnstamm's phenomenon is a sustained involuntary contraction of a muscle after a prolonged voluntary contraction. The simplest demonstration, sometimes called...

person; or a rogue, vagrant or vagabond without means of support. It is a contraction of the phrase never-do-well. The term ne'er-do-well was used in the nineteenth-century...

self-contraction, especially of the muscles or similar active biological tissue Contractile ring in cytokinesis Contractile vacuole Muscle contraction Myocardial...

\exp(\omega t)} for all t ≥ 0 {\textstyle t\geq 0} . It is called a contraction semigroup if ‖ T ( t ) ‖ ≤ 1 {\textstyle \|T(t)\|\leq 1} for all t ≥...

is a positive number smaller than 1, scaling is sometimes also called contraction or reduction. In the most general sense, a scaling includes the case...

Tocolytics (also called anti-contraction medications or labor suppressants) are medications used to suppress premature labor (from Greek τόκος tókos,...

(CTG) is a technique used to monitor the fetal heartbeat and uterine contractions during pregnancy and labour. The machine used to perform the monitoring...

as a guest star. Astronaut Mike Massimino appears in "The Friendship Contraction" and "The Countdown Reflection". Stephen Hawking went on to appear in...

native to the Americas. The name, sometimes spelled odocoeleus, is a contraction of the Greek root odont-, meaning "tooth," and -coelus, New Latin for...

exhibits no intercalated discs. Intercalated discs support synchronized contraction of cardiac tissue in a wave-like pattern so that the heart can work like...

(LAD) is a condition wherein the mean electrical axis of ventricular contraction of the heart lies in a frontal plane direction between −30° and −90°...

Akkadian, the circumflex indicates a long vowel resulting from an aleph contraction. In western Cree, Sauk, and Saulteaux, the Algonquianist Standard Roman...

Retrieved 7 July 2020. Taagepera, Rein (September 1997). "Expansion and Contraction Patterns of Large Polities: Context for Russia" (PDF). International...

metallic hydrogen and a diffuse inner core of denser material. The ongoing contraction of Jupiter's interior generates more heat than the planet receives from...

transformations and Poincaré transformations; conversely, the group contraction in the classical limit c → ∞ of Poincaré transformations yields Galilean...

in trachea.[citation needed] The muscle protein myosin "motors" the contraction of muscle fibers in animals. The importance of motor proteins in cells...

contract before ventricular contraction due to retrograde conduction, during ventricular contraction, or after ventricular contraction. If there is a blockage...

muscle contraction. The activation of more motor neurons will result in more muscle fibers being activated, and therefore a stronger muscle contraction. Motor...

(the E wave) to peak velocity flow in late diastole caused by atrial contraction (the A wave). It is calculated using Doppler echocardiography, an ultrasound-based...

with blood (vasocongestion), and the individual experiences vaginal contractions. The ischiocavernosus and bulbocavernosus muscles, which insert into...

is a rapid transitioning from an eccentric contraction (lengthening under load) to a concentric contraction (shortening) of the same muscle, storing elastic...

A tremor is an involuntary, somewhat rhythmic muscle contraction and relaxation involving oscillations or twitching movements of one or more body parts...

stomach. The other type of contractions, called phasic contractions, consist of brief periods of both relaxation and contraction, occurring in the posterior...

type of breathing to make room for the contraction of the diaphragm. During diaphragmatic breathing, contraction of the diaphragm increases thoracic volume...

a contraction of owó ọ̀kan 'one cowrie'; 2–10, 20, and 30 are analogous. ** Lá is a contraction of lé ẹ̀wá 'and ten'. *** Ẹ̀ẹ́dógún is a contraction of...

Ballistic movement can be defined as muscle contractions that exhibit maximum velocities and accelerations over a very short period of time. They exhibit...

of measurement 3 contractions occurred subtract the resting tone from the peak intensity of the contraction add the 3 contractions together to get the...

different observers, when one of the observers is moving, because of Lorentz contraction. The situation is even more complicated if the two points are separated...

and a collection of trailing tentacles on the underside. Via pulsating contractions, the bell can provide propulsion for locomotion through open water. The...

to drive and support many processes in living cells, such as muscle contraction, nerve impulse propagation, and chemical synthesis. Found in all known...

impulses, known as cardiac action potentials, which control the rate of contraction of the cardiac muscle, that is, the heart rate. In most humans, these...

retaining her maiden name. Originating in the 17th century, it is a contraction of mistress. The plural of Miss is Misses or occasionally Mses. Like...

major role these channels play are to regulate cell signaling and muscle contraction by releasing calcium ions. There are three major isoforms of the ryanodine...

In the Dutch language, the word 't (Dutch pronunciation: [ət]) is a contraction of the article "het", meaning "the". 't can be found as a tussenvoegsel...

show the geometry underlying phenomena such as time dilation and length contraction without the need of mathematical equations. The history of an object's...

Twitch may refer to: Muscle contraction, otherwise known as twitching Convulsion, rapid and repeated muscle contraction and relaxation Fasciculation...

of restriction and contraction operations. Matroid minors are closely related to graph minors, and the restriction and contraction operations by which...

fell by an estimated 15%; in the U.S., the Depression resulted in a 30% contraction in GDP. Recovery varied greatly around the world. Some economies, such...

maintain normal heart rhythm.[citation needed] Pacemaker: Coordinates contractions between ventricles. In people at risk of arrhythmias, drug therapy or...

stricture). Stricture as a term is usually used when narrowing is caused by contraction of smooth muscle (e.g. achalasia, Prinzmetal angina); stenosis is usually...

as the maximum amount of force that can be generated in one maximal contraction. One repetition maximum can be used for determining an individual's maximum...

mammals, when a muscle contracts, a series of reactions occur. Muscle contraction is stimulated by the motor neuron sending a message to the muscles from...

(myotatic reflex), or more accurately muscle stretch reflex, is a muscle contraction in response to stretching a muscle. The function of the reflex is generally...

used to form the possessive of English nouns and noun phrases 's, a contraction of the English words is and has 's, a form of the English plural ending...

1901) was an Irish theoretical physicist known for hypothesising length contraction, which became an integral part of Albert Einstein's special theory of...

Purkinje fibers allow the heart's conduction system to create synchronized contractions of its ventricles, and are essential for maintaining healthy and consistent...

severe. They may be caused by general exertion, sexual excitement, or contraction of the neck and facial muscles. Most cases can be successfully treated...

like a strap or belt and have fibers that run longitudinally to the contraction direction. These muscles have broad attachments compared to other muscle...

the entire cardiac cycle. Note that during isovolumetric/isovolumic contraction and relaxation, all the heart valves are closed; at no time are all the...

contraction of the right and left ventricles. The contraction of the ventricles results in the QRS complex seen on an ECG tracing. After contraction,...

genetic disorder. The hallmark of the disease is the failure of initiated contraction to terminate, often referred to as delayed relaxation of the muscles...

titin is an elastic protein. The myofilaments act together in muscle contraction, and in order of size are a thick one of mostly myosin, a thin one of...

twitches can become superimposed as a result of summation or a tetanic contraction. Individual twitches can become indistinguishable, and tension rises...

In their 2009 published study, the "coronal planes during perineal contraction and finger penetration demonstrated a close relationship between the...

rules of exchange, weakening, and contraction: Ordered types correspond to noncommutative logic where exchange, contraction and weakening are discarded. This...

The Contraction Act of 1866 was an act passed by Congress of the United States on April 12, 1866. It was intended to lower the price level so they could...

We Beheld the Last Contraction of the Seraph is an EP by Abu Lahab, independently released on February 5, 2012. All music is composed by Abu Lahab. Adapted...

electrocardiogram (ECG) represents atrial depolarization, which results in atrial contraction, or atrial systole. The P wave is a summation wave generated by the depolarization...

of motor units often work together as a motor pool to coordinate the contractions of a single muscle. The concept was proposed by Charles Scott Sherrington...

The nebular hypothesis is the most widely accepted model in the field of cosmogony to explain the formation and evolution of the Solar System (as well...

muscle contraction is the microfilament. Microfilaments are composed of the most abundant cellular protein known as actin. During contraction of a muscle...

sexual intercourse, most women experience involuntary vaginal contractions. The contraction causes the pelvic muscles to tighten around the penis, which...

vowel of contraction: a, e, or o. Contraction also occurs in nouns, including the contracted second declension. S-stem nouns undergo contraction with vowel...

Tonic vibration reflex is a sustained contraction of a muscle subjected to vibration. This reflex is caused by vibratory activation of muscle spindles...

in pharmaceutical form. In either form, oxytocin stimulates uterine contractions to speed up the process of childbirth. In its natural form, it also plays...

edge(s) connecting u and v. Figure 1 gives an example of contraction of vertex A and B. After contraction, the resulting graph may have parallel edges, but contains...

characterized by delayed relaxation (prolonged contraction) of the skeletal muscles after voluntary contraction or electrical stimulation, and the muscle shows...

summation convention to compensate for the difficulty in describing contractions and covariant differentiation in modern abstract tensor notation, while...

thrusts. As most women approach orgasm, they experience acute vaginal contractions, which also increases the man's sexual stimulation by increasing tightness...

organized electrical activity in the heart muscle, there is inconsistent contraction of the ventricles, which prevents the heart from generating adequate...

suggesting that borrowers are or were less creditworthy can lead to a sudden contraction of credit. Other causes can include an anticipated decline in the value...

controls the frequency of contraction but additional neuronal and hormonal controls regulate the strength of each contraction. Smooth muscle within the...

efferent impulse back to the quadriceps femoris muscle, triggering contraction. This contraction, coordinated with the relaxation of the antagonistic flexor...

leaf is some 400 times thicker than goldene. It features 9% lattice contraction compared to bulk gold. Goldene was synthesized as a free-standing material...

multiplication, inner multiplication, inner derivative, insertion operator, contraction, or inner derivation) is a degree −1 (anti)derivation on the exterior...

fibers. Substrates within the muscle generally serve to power muscular contractions. They include molecules such as adenosine triphosphate (ATP), glycogen...

seizures are usually caused by sudden muscle contractions (positive myoclonus) or brief lapses of contraction (negative myoclonus). The most common circumstance...

including Judaism and Christianity. It is thought to be derived by contraction from al-ilāh (الاله, lit. 'the god') and is linguistically related to...

from the MIT Millstone Radar, in Massachusetts. Davis converted vaginal contractions into an analog signal and digitally mapped the input into a phonetic...

{\displaystyle j} . A third definition uses a deletion–contraction recurrence. The edge contraction G / u v {\displaystyle G/uv} of graph G {\displaystyle...

length of the contraction of one of the bands of contraction. However, depending on the length of the animal, several bands of contraction can be in progress...

eight postulates for contraction and vice versa. If a contraction operator satisfies at least the first six postulates for contraction, translating it into...

smooth muscle contraction. The β receptor couples to Gs and increases intracellular cAMP activity, resulting in e.g. heart muscle contraction, smooth muscle...

diffuses from mitochondria to myofibrils. In myofibrils, during exercise (contraction) ADP levels are very high, which favors resynthesis of ATP. Thus, phosphocreatine...

dates the contraction following the panic as lasting from October 1873 to March 1879. At 65 months, it is the longest-lasting contraction identified...

the contraction; Contraction time (Tc) as a time between 10% and 90% of the contraction; Sustain time (Ts) as a time between 50% of the contraction and...

upper and lower motor neurons that normally control voluntary muscle contraction. ALS is the most common of the motor neuron diseases. ALS often presents...

by one third, which economist Milton Friedman later called the Great Contraction. Prices fell by 20%, causing deflation that made repaying debts much...

myofilaments to slide past each other in a process called excitation-contraction coupling. Diseases of the heart muscle known as cardiomyopathies are...

Gravitational collapse is the contraction of an astronomical object due to the influence of its own gravity, which tends to draw matter inward toward...

the failure of the uterus to contract adequately following delivery. Contraction of the uterine muscles during labor compresses the blood vessels and...

produce 10 to 30 contractions per second (equivalent to 10 to 30 Hz sound frequency). Fast twitch fibers produce 30 to 70 contractions per second (equivalent...

facilitating the myosin head to move along the thin filament, resulting in a contraction of the sternocleidomastoid muscle. The sternocleidomastoid is within...

thigh—regardless of the direction of stroke. The normal response is an immediate contraction of the cremaster muscle that pulls up the testicle ipsilaterally (on...

looking at deep abdominal co-contraction reported that it can take as long a 4–5 weeks to achieve this pattern of co-contraction. Matt Smith: Actor who played...

characterized by seizures of the tonic–clonic type, with a regular pattern of contraction and extension of the arms and legs, lasting at least 5 minutes without...

purposes: The marking of the omission of one or more letters, e.g., the contraction of "do not" to "don't" The marking of possessive case of nouns (as in...

straightened and expands when the elbow is bent. The long head gets a further contraction when the arm is behind the torso due to how it crosses the shoulder joint...

Vân Hòa Plateau encountered cold seawater, causing rapid cooling and contraction that resulted in the characteristic polygonal cracking. This process...

Great Depression was published as a standalone book titled The Great Contraction, 1929–1933. Friedman and Schwartz were working at the National Bureau...

parts together while safely absorbing temperature-induced expansion and contraction of building materials. They are commonly found between sections of buildings...

Tokyu Corporation (東急株式会社, Tōkyū kabushiki-gaisha), a contraction of and formerly Tōkyō Kyūkō Dentetsu kabushiki gaisha (東京急行電鉄株式会社; "Tokyo Express Electric...

sarcomeres in cardiac muscle and plays a major role in cardiac muscle contraction. MHC-β is a 223 kDa protein composed of 1935 amino acids. MHC-β is a...

stresses are generated as a consequence of the repeated expansion and contraction of its material. It can also lead to the severe breakdown or damage of...

mercury thermometer is a thermometer that uses the thermal expansion and contraction of liquid mercury to indicate the temperature. A basic mercury thermometer...

sympathomimetic effects include increases in heart rate, force of cardiac contraction, and blood pressure. The primary endogenous agonists of the sympathetic...

EMG activation or the peak contraction value is a debated topic. Most studies commonly use the maximal voluntary contraction as a means of analyzing peak...

Lombard's paradox describes a paradoxical muscular contraction in humans. When rising to stand from a sitting or squatting position, both the hamstrings...

of motion with respect to the aether (length contraction). That is, the older hypothesis of a contraction of electrostatic fields was extended to intermolecular...

classified as: Premature heart beat premature ventricular contraction (PVC) premature atrial contraction (PAC) Escape beat, when the sinoatrial node becomes...

the deletion-contraction recurrence t(G) = t(G − e) + t(G/e), where G − e is the multigraph obtained by deleting e and G/e is the contraction of G by e....

muscle contraction, chronic vasospasm involves more permanent structural damage to the vessel wall. In chronic stages, smooth muscle contraction becomes...

Meeples are a common component in German-style board games. The word is a contraction of "my people". Meeples are more anthropomorphized than other board game...

recurrence relation called the deletion–contraction recurrence or Fundamental Reduction Theorem. It is based on edge contraction: for a pair of vertices u {\displaystyle...

of Tostitos Scoops was launched in June 2001. The term tostito is a contraction of Spanish tostadito (little toasted thing), which is a diminutive of...

shortened form of a word or phrase, by any method including shortening, contraction, initialism (which includes acronym), or crasis. An abbreviation may...

Laryngospasm is an uncontrolled or involuntary muscular contraction (spasm) of the vocal folds. It may be triggered when the vocal cords or the area of...

A neck spasm is an involuntary contraction of the muscles in the neck region. The possible causes of neck spasms include:[citation needed] Anxiety Muscle...

uncoordinated esophageal contractions Nutcracker esophagus (NE) also known as hypertensive peristalsis, where the contractions are coordinated but with...

(arrector pili muscle) attached to each hair follicle to contract. This contraction causes the hair strands to stand straight. The emotional correlates of...

muscle when under contraction. Such a device is commonly used in myography, the study of the velocity and intensity of muscular contraction. A myograph can...

"JO 7340.2J - Contractions – Document Information". www.faa.gov. "JO 7340.341 - Additions and Modification Per Order 7340.2 Contractions, Chapter 3, Sections...

confirmation, or comprehension on the part of the listener. Portuguese né?, a contraction of não é? meaning 'isn't it?', is used to turn a statement into a question...

Westralia was a common contraction of Western Australia in the 19th and 20th centuries. Westralia may refer to: Westralia, a name associated with secessionism...

San Francisco drew 2,808 per game and only 1,920 in New Jersey. This contraction forced the remaining six teams to form one conference. The Rochester...

iterative scheme: the basic idea is to prove a fixed point theorem using the contraction mapping theorem. For functions of a single variable, the theorem states...

the capacity of an athlete to exert force through voluntary muscular contraction: After an initial period of neuro-muscular adaptation, the muscle tissue...

mitral valve during diastole with contraction of the left atrium, and the mitral valve closes during systole with contraction of the left ventricle. The valve...

(quadrans), half (semis), and three-quarters (dodrans). Dodrans is a Latin contraction of de-quadrans which means "a whole unit less a quarter" (de means "from";...

as the beginning of a period of expansion that followed a period of contraction. In this view, one could talk of a "Big Crunch" followed by a "Big Bang"...

(troponin C, troponin I, and troponin T) that are integral to muscle contraction in skeletal muscle and cardiac muscle, but not smooth muscle. Measurements...

promote neurite outgrowth. At the organ level blebbistatin stops the contraction of skeletal muscle or heart muscle. Blebbistatin has also been found...

calcium release. Instead, CICR is thought to be crucial for excitation-contraction coupling in cardiac muscle. It is now obvious that CICR is a widely occurring...

smooth muscle. During muscle contraction: H2O + ATP → H+ + ADP + Pi (Mg2+ assisted, utilization of ATP for muscle contraction by ATPase) H+ + ADP + CP →...

Death SS (later also intended as a contraction of In Death of Steve Sylvester) is an Italian heavy metal band formed in 1977. They have sometimes been...

a feminine given name and a French surname. As a given name, it is a contraction of the compound name Marie-Louise. The name has been well used for girls...

aortic stenosis, after a premature ventricular contraction (PVC), the following ventricular contraction will be more forceful, and the pressure generated...

two hormonal mechanisms. The end pathway of both mechanisms lead to contractions in the myometrium, a mechanical cause of placental separation, which...

muscles begin a series of rhythmic contractions. Both men and women experience quick cycles of muscle contraction of lower pelvic muscles and women often...

composition of a contraction mapping and a non-expansion mapping (or vice versa) is a contraction mapping. If T {\displaystyle T} is not a contraction mapping...

cyclic α-halo ketones, the Favorskii rearrangement constitutes a ring contraction: The reaction is named for the Russian chemist Alexei Yevgrafovich Favorskii...

Lipschitz continuous in y {\displaystyle y} , this integral operator is a contraction (See detailed proof below) and so the Banach fixed-point theorem proves...

mother's brain secretes oxytocin. High levels of oxytocin trigger the contraction of muscle cells surrounding the alveoli, causing milk to flow along the...

type of lower motor neuron that takes part in the process of muscle contraction, and represents about 30% of (Aγ) fibers going to the muscle. Like alpha...

flexing the muscles at the sides of the mouth. Some smiles include a contraction of the muscles at the corner of the eyes, an action known as a Duchenne...

found in the FitzGerald–Lorentz contraction hypothesis, now simply called length contraction or Lorentz contraction, first proposed by George FitzGerald...

developed enough to survive outside of the uterus, the cervix dilates and contractions of the uterus propel it through the birth canal, which is the vagina...

Heart rate is the frequency of the heartbeat measured by the number of contractions of the heart per minute (beats per minute or bpm). The heart rate varies...

trough at 6.9% contraction during the second quarter. While the contraction was a big hit to the economy, compared to the massive contractions other countries...

is caused by vasospasm, a narrowing of the coronary arteries due to contraction of the heart's smooth muscle tissue in the vessel walls. In comparison...

In morphogenesis, apical constriction is the process in which contraction of the apical side of a cell causes the cell to take on a wedged shape. Generally...

para adelante in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pa'lante is a Spanish contraction of para adelante (straight ahead). Pa'lante, or variants, may refer to:...

administered for acute pain in general and for tension headache (muscle contraction headache). It acts on the spinal cord by depressing reflexes. It is sold...

suitable where power rather than range of contraction is required. This limitation in the range of contraction affects all muscles, and those that act over...

the genus Pinacosaurus, P. mephistocephalus. The specific name is a contraction of Mephistopheles and the Greek κεφαλή, kephalè, "head", in reference...

from the follicle or high blood levels of luteinizing hormone causing contraction of smooth muscle. Diagnosis involves ruling out other potential causes...

breasts, appear in the first trimester. Braxton Hicks contractions are sporadic uterine contractions that may start around six weeks into a pregnancy but...

a Slime'), also known as Regarding Reincarnated to Slime and by the contraction TenSura (転スラ), is a Japanese fantasy light novel series written by Fuse...

known as an oxytocic or ecbolic, is a type of medication used to induce contraction or greater tonicity of the uterus. Uterotonics are used both to induce...

achilles reflex), brief stimulation to the muscle spindle results in contraction of the agonist or effector muscle. By contrast, in polysynaptic reflex...

in simulation capability built on a multiple-amplitude tensor network contraction algorithm. Despite high hopes for quantum computing, significant progress...

plays an essential role in the regulation of smooth muscle and nonmuscle contraction. The conserved domain of this protein possesses the binding activities...

premature contraction of the atrium or ventricle. The pause after the contraction causes the "stop." The "start" comes from the next forceful contraction. rapid...

kind of blend can be deliberate or accidental. A blend is similar to a contraction. On one hand, mainstream blends tend to be formed at a particular historical...

increase in blood volume (sometimes resulting in edema), Braxton Hicks contractions, the presence of colostrum in the breasts, and the dislodging of the...

the depolarization of the right and left ventricles of the heart and contraction of the large ventricular muscles. In adults, the QRS complex normally...

and noncommutative geometry. The word "brane" originated in 1987 as a contraction of "membrane". A point particle is a 0-brane, of dimension zero; a string...

excitation contraction (EC) coupling and the initiation of the cross-bridge cycling in smooth muscle, ultimately causing smooth muscle contraction. In order...

and higher ionization energies. Lanthanide and actinide contraction (and scandide contraction): The shrinking of the elements affects the ionization energy...

Vasoconstriction is the narrowing of the blood vessels resulting from contraction of the muscular wall of the vessels, in particular the large arteries...

phosphorylating the enzyme, tabun accomplishes a constant and involuntary contraction of the affected muscles, as the acetylcholine is not recycled and continues...

muscular contractions (peristalsis) to force the blockage out of the organ, resulting in episodic pain that fluctuates with the contractions. Although...

craftsmanship producing mostly mechanical watches. The name Swatch is a contraction of "second watch", its concept of "low-cost, high-tech, artistic and...

to the body (such as a fall or pull) or at the tendon by a muscular contraction that is stronger than the forces holding the bone together. Generally...

around 250 letters (phonograms), numerals, punctuation, formatting marks, contractions, and abbreviations (logograms). Some English Braille letters, such as...

/ˈjuːnikloʊ/ YOO-nee-kloh; Japanese pronunciation: [jɯnikɯɾo]) (a shortened contraction of "unique clothing") is a Japanese designer and retailer with a focus...

cat species are susceptible to bubonic plague, and typically die upon contraction. In the bubonic form of plague, the bacteria enter through the skin through...

walking (eccentric contraction) and acts later to pull the foot clear of the ground during the swing phase (concentric contraction). It also functions...

blocking muscarinic receptors in the bladder thus decreasing bladder contractions. Tolterodine was approved for medical use in 1998. It is available as...

2009 -Riot Summer-) and BuruFesu: Spring Raid (ぶるふぇす -Spring Raid-) (contraction of "BlueFestival"), were held in June 2009 and February 2010. It features...

terms of a contraction of space ahead of the bubble and an expansion behind, but this interpretation could be misleading, since the contraction and expansion...

positive-strand RNA viruses which infect eukaryotes. The name of the group is a contraction of "Nodamura virus" and -virales which is the suffix for a virus order...

"Rx", is used as an abbreviation of the word "prescription". It is a contraction of the Latin word "recipe" (an imperative form of "recipere") meaning...

nerve and muscle. This prevents nerve impulses from triggering muscle contractions. Most cases are due to immunoglobulin G1 (IgG1) and IgG3 antibodies that...

stretched and refold when the tension is removed. Titin is used in the contraction of striated muscle tissues. It connects the Z disc to the M line in the...

equation, which was based on careful experiments involving tetanized muscle contraction where various muscle loads and associated velocities were measured. They...

simultaneity is the conceptual foundation from which time dilation and length contraction follow. In 1892 and 1895, Hendrik Lorentz used a mathematical method...

blood to have a normal rhythm of contraction. Cardiotoxic drugs act on cardiac muscles to cease muscle contraction. As the heart fails to pump blood...

la 'the.F.SG' and là 'there'. À is used in Portuguese to represent a contraction of the feminine singular definite article a with the preposition a or...

Jyutping (itself the Jyutping romanisation of its Chinese name, 粵拼) is a contraction of the official name, and it consists of the first Chinese characters...

paralysis, 1 = flicker of contraction, 2 = contraction with gravity eliminated alone, 3 = contraction against gravity alone, 4 = contraction against gravity and...

ribs Breathing In mammals, inhalation at rest is primarily due to the contraction of the diaphragm. This is an upwardly domed sheet of muscle that separates...

that connects muscle to bone. It sends the mechanical forces of muscle contraction to the skeletal system, while withstanding tension. Tendons, like ligaments...

Shield Nicholson wrote that credit expansion and contraction was in fact the expansion and contraction of representative money. In 1934 economist William...

been its rapidly aging population. In August 2012, the year-on-year contraction was 0.8%; however, 0.2% growth was recorded in the first quarter (in...

abbreviations—in British usage, primarily truncations such as Rev., but not after contractions which retain the final letter such as Revd; in American English, it is...

PMC 5035146. PMID 27661778. Amos, William Bradshaw (1975). Aspects of contraction in the Peritrich stalk. jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge...

to a decrease in the contraction threshold of the tensor tympani which is exaggerated by high stress levels. This hyper-contraction (or spasms) leads to...

Wenckebach's 1906 paper, his original observations were of increasing delay in contraction of the atria and ventricles that shortened after a brief pause. He later...

preference for homemade zip guns. According to another theory, the term is a contraction of a Sicilian slang term for "hicks" or "primitives". With increasing...

provider's fingers to assess for pain and strength of pelvic floor muscle contraction. Imaging provides a more complete picture of the type and severity of...

Maribel is a Spanish language name, formed as a contraction of María Isabel. Alternately, it is an English compound name, a combined version of Mary and...

Kardemir is a Turkish steel producer. The name is a contraction of the Karabük Iron and Steel Works (Turkish: Karabük Demir Çelik Fabrikaları). Its main...

form a bolus (also known as the cud); this is regurgitated by reticular contractions while the glottis is closed. When the bolus enters the mouth, the fluid...

Scouts preparing "Some Mores" using the modern recipe appear, with the contraction s'more arising by the 1930s. More elaborate versions of s'mores came...

predecessor to the 20th-century battleship, whose very designation is itself a contraction of the phrase "ship of the line of battle" or, more colloquially, "battleship...

parameter, and cosmological constant. If the expansion stopped, then contraction will inevitably follow, accelerating as time passes and finishing the...

consent and the availability of contraception and techniques to avoid contraction of sexually transmitted infections. Every state within the U.S. has a...

Look up gotcha in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gotcha, a colloquial contraction for "got you" (got ya), may refer to: Gotcha! (film), a 1985 film starring...

sedation sometimes used. Because of the significant skeletal muscle contractions it causes, electroejaculation is not used in stallions — except in rare...

(see phase 2, below) and is a fundamental step in cardiac excitation-contraction coupling. There are important physiological differences between the pacemaker...

do work. Nerves control the contraction of muscles by determining the number, sequence, and force of muscular contraction. When a nerve experiences synaptic...

hole, sometimes used in combination: force and thermal expansion or contraction. There are at least three different terms used to describe an interference...

generate a contraction semigroup. Let A be a linear operator defined on a linear subspace D(A) of the Banach space X. Then A generates a contraction semigroup...

strongest main flow contraction 3, and A2 the cross-sectional area of the narrower part of the pipe. Since A3 ≤ A2, the coefficient of contraction is less than...

both caused by the release of oxytocin. Nipple erection is due to the contraction of smooth muscle under the control of the autonomic nervous system, and...

with the aim of depolarising enough of the myocardium for coordinated contractions to occur again. The use of this is often dictated around the world by...

extremely high occurrence (several thousands a day) of premature ventricular contractions (extrasystole) can develop dilated cardiomyopathy. In these cases, if...

Weil. A natural extension of the representation leads to a semigroup of contraction operators, introduced as the oscillator semigroup by Roger Howe in 1988...

that causes positive inotropy and it will lead to an increased force of contraction. Milrinone use following cardiac surgery has been under some debate because...

the simultaneous involuntary contraction of other muscles. An example might be smiling inducing an involuntary contraction of the eye muscles, causing...

Michelson–Morley experiment led to the introduction of the hypothesis of length contraction in 1892. However, other experiments also produced negative results and...

waveform, upward deflections correspond with (A) atrial contraction, (C) ventricular contraction (and resulting bulging of tricuspid valve into the right...

initial value problem. A special type of Lipschitz continuity, called contraction, is used in the Banach fixed-point theorem. We have the following chain...

wearing of loose socks. The word kogal is anglicized from kogyaru, a contraction of kōkōsei gyaru ("high school gal"). Aside from the miniskirt or microskirt...

muscular system which works in conjunction with troponin to regulate muscle contraction. It is present in smooth and striated muscle tissues, which can be found...

stretch-coupling in smooth muscle. I. Anatomy of intestinal segmentation and sleeve contractions". The Anatomical Record. 262 (1): 110–24. doi:10...

internal vaginal control to massage the penis with subtle, wave-like contractions, usually performed by a female on top. The term pompoir is the French...

circumstances, electrical activation of muscle cells precedes mechanical contraction of the heart (known as electromechanical coupling). In PEA, there is...

clock" or possibly "little weather-glass". The common name "marigold", a contraction of "Mary's gold" used especially for Calendula officinalis, refers to...

tensors respectively. Connecting lines between two shapes corresponds to contraction of indices. One advantage of this notation is that one does not have...

in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Fro or FRO may refer to: 'fro, a contraction of "afro", a hairstyle Frø (Freyr), a Norse god Family Responsibility...

In the culinary arts, fond is a contraction of fonds de cuisine which is loosely described as "the foundation and working capital of the kitchen". In...

the muscles of mastication, the tongue, and the teeth, and also by the contractions of peristalsis, and segmentation. Gastric juice containing gastric acid...

one-to-one relationship between electrical stimulation and mechanical contraction. The majority of flying insects use asynchronous muscles to generate...

Trish is a feminine given name, often a contraction of Patricia. It may refer to: Trish Adudu (born 1969), British freelance journalist, television presenter...

Look up lingo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lingo, a contraction of language, often refers to jargon, but in a less formal or technical sense. Lingo...

fields of the underlying manifold. The Lie derivative commutes with contraction and the exterior derivative on differential forms. Although there are...

the Montreal Expos as part of a four-team expansion. After a failed contraction plan, MLB bought the Expos, seeking to move the team to a new city. MLB...

Smart Dedicates Critics Choice Award to Showrunner Who Directed 'Between Contractions'". March 14, 2022. Archived from the original on March 5, 2024. Retrieved...

another lead to better coordinate the timing of atrial and ventricular contraction. No specific set of criteria has been developed for diagnosis of pacemaker...

In medicine, pulse is the rhythmic expansion and contraction of an artery in response to the cardiac cycle (heartbeat). The pulse may be felt (palpated)...

fitness company that specializes in isometric exercise, that is the static contraction of a muscle without any visible movement. The original portable home...

as a second messenger, and many intracellular processes, such as the contraction of cardiac muscle. Mutations in CALM2 are associated with cardiac arrhythmias...

ʾA.Q.), is the first of Four Worlds that came into being after the contraction of God's infinite light. Adam Kadmon is not the same as the physical...

contracts (systole), and diastolic blood pressure reflects pressure between contractions (diastole). Mean arterial pressure (MAP)is a weighted average of systolic...

experiment was an experiment designed to measure if the Lorentz–FitzGerald contraction of an object according to one frame (as defined by the luminiferous aether)...

surface mechanomyogram) is a technique to measure the force of muscle contraction by recording the low frequency sounds created during muscular activity...

Instagram: "For the last several years, I've felt a deep need and a deep contraction about coming out on #nationalcomingoutday🌈 I felt like I didn't…""....

varying from a few times daily to a few times weekly. Waves of muscular contraction (known as peristalsis) in the walls of the colon move fecal matter through...

chloroformed bat to widen his research focus. Lister concluded that the contraction of the vessels led to the exclusion of blood cells from the capillaries...

Haderech (Hebrew: קְפִיצַת הַדֶּרֶךְ, romanized: qəp̄îṣáṯ haddéreḵ, lit. 'contraction of the road') is a Hebrew term used in Jewish sources, referring to miraculous...

colonies in Africa and South America. The name "bichon" is believed to be a contraction of "barbichon", which means "little barbet". The Bichon Frisé, formally...

This contraction helps move the spermatozoa and fluid to the rete testes. There are a number of mediators involved in the regulation of contraction. Oxytocin...

of classical sequent calculus in which uses of (the structural rules) contraction and weakening are carefully controlled. Operationally, this means that...

The causes are varied and might demonstrate either the expansion or contraction of a species' range. Also called range fragmentation, disjunct distributions...

rules (e.g. of classical and intuitionistic logic), such as weakening, contraction, exchange or associativity. Two of the more significant substructural...

Stanley is a toponymic surname, a contraction of stan (a form of "stone") and leigh (meadow), later also being used as a masculine given name. Stanley...

derived from Shakespearian expression "will ye, nill ye", which is a contraction that means “whether one wants to or not.” It has a very similar meaning...

the religion. Later Middle Persian variations of the term include the contraction 'Ameshaspand' as well as the specifically Zoroastrian 'Mahraspand' and...

Conversely, afferent input causes contraction of the sphincter through excitation of Onuf's nucleus, and contraction of the bladder neck and urethra through...

panic of October 1929 has come to serve as a symbol of the economic contraction that gripped the world during the next decade. The falls in share prices...

that increase the output force of the heart and decrease its rate of contractions by inhibiting the cellular sodium-potassium ATPase pump. Their beneficial...

between the two structures is sealed and the infundibulum flattens. Muscle contractions allow for attachment and detachment. Each of the eight arms senses and...

seizures. In extreme cases, it may cause carpopedal spasms, a flapping and contraction of the hands and feet. Factors that may induce or sustain hyperventilation...

the 60th largest in the world as of 2017. The name Kookmin Bank is a contraction of Citizens National Bank, an English name by which it also used to be...

time measured between two events by observers in motion differ § Length contraction – distances between two events by observers in motion differ The § Lorentz...

Verbrugghen, Verbrugge and Verbrugghe are Dutch toponymic surnames. They are a contraction of "van der Brugge(n)", meaning "from the bridge". Notable people with...

premature ventricular contraction (R-on-T PVC) The R-on-T phenomenon is the superimposition of a premature ventricular contraction on the T wave of a preceding...

comprising the cardiac muscle thick filament, and functions in cardiac muscle contraction. Mutations in MYH6 have been associated with late-onset hypertrophic...

pressure created from ventricular contraction that closes the valve, not the papillary muscles themselves. The contraction of the ventricle begins just prior...

and myosin fibrils leading to contraction. A plentiful supply of mitochondria provide the energy for the contractions. Typically, cardiomyocytes have...

SsangYong from 1983 to 2006 and from 2010 onwards. The name Korando is a contraction of "Korea Can Do". The Korando brand is listed in the Guinness Book of...

pregnancy. It is of the antimuscarinic class and works by decreasing bladder contractions. Solifenacin was approved for medical use in the United States in 2004...

and early 20th centuries, persecution of Muslims during the Ottoman contraction and in the Russian Empire resulted in large-scale loss of life and mass...

thoughts are reduced to simple terms of simplistic meaning. The political contractions of Newspeak – Ingsoc (English Socialism), Minitrue (Ministry of Truth)...

without a counterstain. As such, it is used to identify contraction bands, as seen in contraction band necrosis. PTAH can be helpful in diagnosing oncocytomas...

or simply Kübel, contractions of the original German word Kübelsitzwagen (translated: 'bucket-seat car' — but when the contractions are translated literally...

by Dr. Gerhard Wagner in order to escape East Germany. (DOWA being a contraction of “Doctor Wagner” and "81" referring to the year of the intended escape...

the floor of the thoracic cavity, contracts and flattens, while the contraction of intercostal muscles lift the rib cage up and out. Expansion of the...

(nogami, polywka), but this is falling out of use. Some verbs do not show contraction: stojali (stali). A few changes from Standard Polish can be seen here...

Russia, Austria-Hungary, occupied Serbia and Bulgaria. Feldwebel is a contraction of Feld meaning 'field' and Weibel, an archaic word meaning 'usher'....

Sedley, pg. 411, modified): Distress (lupē): Distress is an irrational contraction, or a fresh opinion that something bad is present, at which people think...

tap is a type of consonantal sound, which is produced with a single contraction of the muscles so that one articulator (such as the tongue) is thrown...

geology, it is more commonly known as montmorillonite. Diosmectite is a contraction of "dioctahedral smectite". Its effectiveness in improving stool consistency...

Hypovolemia, also known as volume depletion or volume contraction, is a state of abnormally low extracellular fluid in the body. This may be due to either...

of a quadrat that would otherwise be incomplete. Some signs are the contraction of several others. These signs have, however, a function and existence...

Shaken (車検), a contraction of Jidōsha Kensa Tōrokuseido (自動車検査登録制度, "automobile inspection registration system"), is the name of the vehicle inspection...

muscles are not functioning properly, the mitral valve may leak during contraction of the left ventricle. This causes some of the blood to travel "in reverse"...

Many results can be considered extensions of the following result: Contraction Theorem for Analytic Functions—Let f be analytic in a simply-connected...

for being highly nonlinear. Their nickname amongst their fans is the contraction TokiMemo. The gameplay in Tokimeki Memorial focuses on scheduling, dating...

over the inner product, also known in this context as a contraction (cf. tensor contraction): ∑ m ⟨ j , m | j , m ⟩ = 2 j + 1 {\displaystyle \sum _{m}\langle...

chamber. This period of the cardiac cycle is called isovolumic contraction. Because the contraction starts near the base of the left ventricle and spreads toward...

Pro–am (or pro/am, pro am, ProAm; a contraction of professional–amateur) refers to a sporting event where both professional career athletes and amateurs...

correlates with the time taken from the beginning to the end of ventricular contraction and relaxation. It is technically the duration of the aggregate ventricular...

person participating via volunteering/volunteerism Voluntary muscle contraction Voluntary action Voluntariness, in law and philosophy Voluntaryism, rejection...

Press. pp. 581–638. Terrell, James (1959). "Invisibility of the Lorentz Contraction". Physical Review. 116 (4): 1041–1045. Bibcode:1959PhRv..116.1041T. doi:10...

In mathematics — specifically, in large deviations theory — the contraction principle is a theorem that states how a large deviation principle on one...

ejaculation) and muscles at the base of the penis begin a steady rhythmic contraction. Males may start to secrete seminal fluid or pre-ejaculatory fluid and...

In the Hawaiian language Kailua means "two seas" or "two currents", a contraction of the words kai (meaning "sea" or "sea water") and ʻelua (meaning "two");...

reactions of the citric acid cycle and the molecular basis of muscle contraction. Szent-Györgyi was born in Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary, on September...

The triceps reflex is a deep tendon reflex that elicits involuntary contraction of the triceps brachii muscle. It is sensed and transmitted by the radial...

column contraction C A {\displaystyle C_{A}} into a 2 × 2 self-adjoint contraction. This can always be done and the structure of such contractions gives...

from the delayed, nonphysiologic timing of atrial contraction in relation to ventricular contraction. "Retrograde VA Conduction - Medical Dictionary Definition"...

(80 mph). A 2016 study estimated maximum swimming speeds from muscle contraction times, which in turn limit the tail-beat frequency; the study suggested...

scientists: the thermal contraction theory. The thermal contraction theory posits that during the winter months, thermal contraction cracks form only a few...

medicinally, it was used historically in small doses to strengthen muscle contractions, such as a heart and bowel stimulant and performance-enhancing drug....

eye movement depend on the position of the eye at the time of muscle contraction. The ciliary muscle, pupillary sphincter muscle and pupillary dilator...

are tiny bumps on the surface of the skin caused by involuntary muscle contractions at the base of each hair. Goosebumps may refer to: Goosebumps, a series...

comprises only the city of Eeklo proper. The name Eeklo comes from the contraction of eke and lo, two Old German words meaning 'oak' and 'sparse woods'...

muscles contract and relax. A key finding was that heat is produced during contraction, which requires investment of chemical energy, but not during relaxation...

The collagen gel contraction assay is an in vitro model of wound contraction. It is performed using the dermal equivalent model, which consists of dermal...

suspends the writing of the word). A separate form of abbreviation is by contraction and was mostly a Christian usage for sacred words, or Nomina Sacra; non-Christian...

defecation, in addition to contraction of the rectal muscles and relaxation of the external anal sphincter, abdominal muscle contraction, and relaxation of the...

alcohol and mercury. It is the contraction/expansion of alcohol that measures the minimum temperature, and the contraction/expansion of both alcohol and...

without a full stop) is short for the Latin videlicet, which itself is a contraction of the Latin phrase videre licet, meaning "it is permitted to see". It...

Self-described as lovable, cute, and furry, he is a blue monster who rarely uses contractions when he speaks or sings. Grover was originally performed by Frank Oz...

involuntary muscle and contraction can occur during arousal which can prevent injury to the testicles during sexual intercourse. Contraction also occurs during...

decomposition, the myosin heads are degraded by the enzymes, allowing the muscle contraction to release and the body to relax. Decomposition of the myofilaments occurs...

cell, causing a depolarization of the end plate, resulting in muscle contraction. Following depolarization, the acetylcholine molecules are then removed...

through the urethra and out of the urethral orifice through muscular contractions. Within the seminiferous tubules, the germ cells develop into spermatogonia...

word. Similarly, synalepha most often refers to elision (as in English contraction), but it can also refer to coalescence by other metaplasms: synizesis...

perform this role of extension and adduction to a lesser degree. The contraction of these adductor/extensor muscles can indirectly depress and downwardly...

Abbreviations that include the initial and final letters (a type of contraction) are typically written in most English dialects (modern U.K. English...

and played their home games at Blocktickets Park. As a result of a contraction of Minor League Baseball in 2021, the Pioneer League, of which the Vibes...

function of preventing needless clot formation, as well as regulating the contraction of smooth muscle tissue. Conversely, thromboxanes (produced by platelet...

be found efficiently. The subroutine to find them uses blossoms and contractions. Given G = (V, E) and a matching M of G, a blossom B is a cycle in G...

Snyder studied this topic with their paper "On Continued Gravitational Contraction" making the opposite argument as Einstein's. They showed when a sufficiently...

from the right ventricle into the right atrium during right ventricular contraction (systole). The tricuspid valve usually has three cusps or leaflets, named...

the word invariable, referring to its relative lack of expansion or contraction with temperature changes, and is a registered trademark of ArcelorMittal...

fricative /h/ or a glottal stop that could explain the absence of vowel contraction in some words—though objections have been raised against that as well...

substructural logic whose proof theory rejects the structural rule of contraction. It can also be characterized as linear logic with weakening. The name...

an important role in cross-bridge cycling kinetics and cardiac muscle contraction. MLC-2v phosphorylation at Ser14 and Ser15 increases myosin lever arm...

ear myoclonus (MEM) is a rare disorder involving involuntary muscle contractions of the middle ear muscles, specifically the tensor tympani and stapedius...

"god-entertainment") is a type of Shinto ritual ceremonial dance. The term is a contraction of the phrase kami no kura ("seat of god"), indicating the presence of...

phosphorylates target proteins, ultimately inducing smooth muscle relaxation and contraction of the cardiac tissue. Activation of β1 receptors induces positive inotropic...

the lens is controlled by ciliary muscles inside the eye. Changes in contraction of the ciliary muscles alter the focal distance of the eye, causing nearer...

and acts as a calcium channel blocker in helping to restore the normal contraction process of the bowel. It is most effective when taken for a full course...

Uterine tachysystole is a condition of excessively frequent uterine contractions during pregnancy. It is most often seen in induced or augmented labor...

dome-shaped position of the diaphragm. With the position of the arms secure, contraction of the pectoralis results in elevation of the anterior wall of the chest...

the periphery experience the Lorentz contraction, but the rods upon the diameter do not experience this contraction (along their lengths!). It therefore...

rehabilitation, neonatal research, brain computer interface, urology (bladder contraction), and neurology (neurovascular coupling). There are also applications...

Clonus is a set of involuntary and rhythmic muscular contractions and relaxations. Clonus is a sign of certain neurological conditions, particularly associated...

affected. In most healing, scars form due to the fibrosis and wound contraction, however in scar free healing, tissue is completely regenerated. During...

a string quartet is expanded to become a piece for string orchestra. Contraction scoring lets composers and arrangers reduce the original work from a...