(n.) The act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil of the eye, or of a tendion; the contraction produced by cold.
(n.) The process of shortening an operation.
(n.) The act of incurring or becoming subject to, as liabilities, obligation, debts, etc.; the process of becoming subject to; as, the contraction of a disease.
(n.) Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word or phrase; -- as, plenipo for plenipotentiary; crim. con. for criminal conversation, etc.
(n.) The shortening of a word, or of two words, by the omission of a letter or letters, or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one; as, ne'er for never; can't for can not; don't for do not; it's for it is.
(n.) A marriage contract.
Example Sentences:
(1) During the performance of propulsive waves of the oesophagus the implanted vagus nerve caused clonic to tetanic contractions of the sternohyoid muscle, thus proving the oesophagomotor genesis of the reinnervating nerve fibres.
(2) But RWE admitted it had often only been able to retain customers with expired contracts by offering them new deals with more favourable conditions.
(3) Thus adrenaline, via pre- and post-junctional adrenoceptors, may contribute to enhanced vascular smooth muscle contraction, which most likely is sensitized by the elevated intracellular calcium concentration.
(4) Further, the maximal increase in force of contraction was measured using papillary muscle strips from some of these patients.
(5) When subjects centered themselves actively, or additionally, contracted trunk flexor or extensor muscles to predetermined levels of activity, no increase in trunk positioning accuracy was found.
(6) Twitch-tetanus ratios were calculated and found not to be related to unit contraction time.6.
(7) Selective removal of endothelium had no effect on BK-induced contraction or the action of the antagonists.
(8) The increased muscular strength in due to a rise of calcaemia, improved muscle contraction and probably also due to the mentioned nutritional factors.
(9) However, there was not a relationship between the contraction curve of the gallbladder and the bile flow into the duodenum.
(10) In in vitro preparations GABA (10(-7) - 10(-3) M) elicited a dose-dependent relaxation; a decrease in the spontaneous contractions was sometimes observed.
(11) There was no correlation between disturbed gastric clearance, impaired gall bladder contraction, and prolonged colonic transit time in the patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy nor was there a correlation between any disturbed motor function and age or duration of diabetes.
(12) Noradrenaline decreased the phasic contraction amplitude of the circular muscle and exerted a stimulant effect on the tone which suggested an existence of two alpha 1-adrenoceptor subtypes.
(13) It may, however, be useful to compare local wall dynamics in the more isometrically-contracting basal segment with those in the middle portion which brings about most of the emptying of the ventricle.
(14) Upon depletion of ATP in contraction, the P2 intensity reverted to the original rigor level, accompanied by development of rigor tension.
(15) L-NAME abolished B contractions in a dose-dependent fashion.
(16) The power spectrum of the EMG was analyzed during isometric contractions of the shoulder muscles.
(17) A23187 had only a transient effect on KCl-contracted coronary arteries.
(18) When caffeine evokes a contraction, and only then, crayfish muscle fibers become refractory to a second challenge with caffeine for up to 20 min in the standard saline (5 mM K(o)).
(19) Dopamine at concentrations over 10(-5)M induced contractions of tracheal muscle strips and repeated exposures resulted in desensitization (tachyphylaxis) of the muscle.
(20) In the present study we examined cholecystokinin release and gallbladder contraction after oral administration of a commercial fatty meal (Sorbitract; Dagra, Diemen, The Netherlands) using ultrasonography in eight normal subjects and eight gallstone patients before and after 1 and 4 weeks of treatment with ursodeoxycholic acid (10 mg kg-1.day-1).
Coronis
Definition:
(n.) In Greek grammar, a sign ['] sometimes placed over a contracted syllable.
(n.) The curved line or flourish at the end of a book or chapter; hence, the end.
Example Sentences:
(1) A coronial inquiry will be undertaken into the circumstances surrounding the death of Haider.
(2) He lived by the premise that he was always right,” Phillips told the coronial inquest into the siege which took place over two days in December 2014.
(3) A coronial inquest into the death in custody of a 22-year-old Yamitji woman in a South Hedland police cell will begin in two months time, the Western Australian premier, Colin Barnett, told her family this week.
(4) Police can now act on the spot to protect victims whenever and wherever family violence occurs.” A coronial inquest is under way into the murder of Luke Batty by his father in February on a cricket field in Tyabb, Victoria.
(5) The coronial inquest into Dhu’s death, which resumes next month, heard that police at the Port Hedland lock-up did not believe she was seriously ill and told the triage nurse she was “faking it” when she may have already slipped into cardiac arrest.
(6) Ms Dhu, an Aboriginal woman who died in police custody in Western Australia last year, was “treated like a dog” by police and hospital staff, a coronial inquest has heard.
(7) A coronial inquest is supposed to be non-adversarial.
(8) The coronial inquest, which was established because of the deaths of two hostages , held a short hearing in January and is to reopen on Monday to examine every aspect of the siege and the way it was handled by authorities.
(9) The coronial inquests had provided “valuable information”.
(10) For me, the coronial inquest and the horrifying victim blaming that it brought to the fore really enabled me to see victim blaming for what it was: a misguided and damaging narrative that ultimately lets perpetrators off the hook,” Batty will tell reporters.
(11) On Wednesday, the coronial inquest into Anderson’s death will begin, and is expected to conclude the same day.
(12) The work was put to tender in 2009 as part of a statewide program based on coronial recommendations after a death in custody at Roebourne prison in 2007, and was supposed to be completed in 2012.
(13) But Glenda Lindsay, the nurse who performed the triage assessment on 2 August, told the coronial inquest in Perth on Wednesday that Ms Dhu was calm, compliant and alert when she saw her, minutes before she was seen by a second nurse and a doctor.
(14) Coronial autopsy data were obtained from the Brisbane Laboratory of Pathology and Microbiology.
(15) All deaths in custody are subject to a coronial inquest, although most on this list have not yet been assigned an inquest date.
(16) The attorney-general, John Elferink said he believed the man had pre-existing medical conditions but the government would wait for the coronial inquest findings.
(17) Hours later Langdon died of heart failure , alone in the concrete cell, and a coronial inquiry last week ruled he should have been a free man.
(18) The Auckland coronial district experience of 65 childhood pedestrian deaths over a seven year period is presented.
(19) The coronial inquest related to the deaths of Matthew Fuller, 25, Rueben Barnes, 16, and Mitchell Sweeney, 22, who were all killed between October 2009 and February 2010 while fitting insulation in Queensland homes as part of a federal government scheme under the Rudd government.
(20) Any follow up questions are referred to the coronial office within WA police, which does not comment.