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adjective Contractile adj. Tending to contract; having the power or property of contracting, or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions; as, the contractile tissues. "The heart's contractile force." "Each cilium seems to be composed of contractile substance." Contractile vacuole (Zool.), a pulsating cavity in the interior of a protozoan, supposed to be excretory in function. There may be one, two, or more.
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