CONTRACTION

(physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber)

• muscle contraction
• muscular contraction

• shortening  14

• contracture  15
• tetanus  7
• uterine contraction
• braxton-hicks contraction
• • false labor
  • vaginismus  16
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The process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together

Example: "The contraction of a gas on cooling"

• compression  17
• condensation  15

• shrinkage  17
• shrinking  17

• coarctation  15
• constriction  16

A word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds

Example: "`won't' is a contraction of `will not'"

The act of decreasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope

• expansion  18