WordNet
n. (physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber) [syn: contraction, muscle contraction]
Usage examples of "muscular contraction".
On stimulus the resultant depolarization is not translated into muscular contraction or any of the other common responses but makes itself evident, instead, as a flow of electricity.
It was one continuous electric shock at just below the lethal level and I could now all too easily give credence to tales I had heard of patients undergoing electric shock therapy who had eventually ended up on the operating table for the repair of limbs fractured through involuntary muscular contraction.
The muscular contraction caused the blade to scrape between two ribs.
The muscular contraction ripped his wound open further, implanting a great, throbbing pain in his side.
Gradually Carley's strain relaxed, and also the muscular contraction by which she had braced herself in the seat.
The bulky Interior Minister inserted his small end into the nearest drum, with a powerful muscular contraction siphoned out the contents.
I was feeling a little fatigued in spite of the low G, and the sophisticated suit circuitry that took half the load of every muscular contraction, and the stuff the auto-med was metering into my arm.
Alternatively, its present physical posture might be due to an involuntary muscular contraction brought about by the growth, a type of epileptic spasm.
He seized our hands and, with a powerful muscular contraction, pulled us tight against his chest.
Saba felt an involuntary muscular contraction ripple down her spine.