Extended Open Multilingual Wordnet 1.3

00369802-n ✪ 'a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber)';

Chinese (simplified)	肌肉收缩 , 收缩
English	contraction ₁ ( ⊳ ) , muscular contraction , muscle contraction
Japanese	収縮 , 筋収縮 , コントラクション , 攣縮

Definitions

English: a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber)
Japanese: （生理学）体の一部または器官（特に筋肉や筋肉繊維）の短縮や緊張

Relations

Hyponym:	braxton-hicks_contraction contracture tetanus uterine_contraction vaginismus
Hypernym:	shortening
Domain–Category:	physiology
Semantic Field:	act_n

External Links

TempoWN: ◁ ▲ ▷ (Past: 0.000; Present: 0.075; Future: 0.000)

SentiWN: △ ▽ (+0.00 -0.00) MLSentiCon: ▲ ▼ (+0.12 -0.12)