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Definition of Contractile organ
1. Noun. A bodily organ that contracts.
Specialized synonyms: Muscle, Musculus
Generic synonyms: Organ
Derivative terms: Contract
Lexicographical Neighbors of Contractile Organ
Literary usage of Contractile organ
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physiological by Julius Sachs (1882)
"These and other experiments show that a considerable tension of the parenchyma
exists with reference to the central bundle even when the contractile organ ..."
2. The London Medical Gazette (1843)
"ON THE SPLEEN AS A contractile organ PROPELLING THE BLOOD THROUGH THE VEINS.
Tu the Editor of the Medical Gazette. SIB, A FEW remarks on this important ..."
3. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1876)
"We have then a simple contractile organ (snail's heart) apparently capable of
contracting rhythmically without the help of ganglion cells, ..."
4. Reports on the Progress of Zoology and Botany, 1841, 1842 by Ray Society, Heinrich Friedrich Link (1845)
"... and Brachionus, these two pouches are covered with vibrating branchial
appendages, and discharge into a contractile organ (vesicula seminalis, Ehrenb. ..."
5. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"... the petiole itself is transformed into a nearly cylindrical contractile organ
or "pulvinus," 4 to 5 mm. long and 2 to 2'5 mm. thick, furnished, ..."
6. Principles of Animal Biology by Aaron Franklin Shull, George Roger Larue, Alexander Grant Ruthven (1920)
"There is usually a contractile organ, the heart, or paired organs which by their
rhythmic contractions serve to maintain a flow of the blood or lymph. ..."
7. The Lancet (1842)
"An acute writer, quoted in THE LANCET of July 2,1842," regards the spleen as a
contractile organ rendered necessary chiefly to give the impulse to the ..."
8. The Principles of Psychology by Herbert Spencer (1898)
"result a draught from the portion which is beginning to as a sensory organ to
the portion which is beginning to act as a contractile organ—a draught which, ..."
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