Crossword-Solution: CONTRACTILE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Contractile | a. | tending to contract; having the power or property of contracting, or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions; as, the contractile tissues. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| CAPABLE OF CONTRACTING OR BEING CONTRACTED | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also,
the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many
fishes.
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Sentences with CONTRACTILE (5)
Some of them come so near to the compound ascidians that they have been termed, as an order, “Zoophyta ascidioida.” The simplest form of polype is that of a fleshy bag open at one end, surmounted by a circle of contractile threads or fingers called tentacles.
Instead of being fleshy and contractile, they are rather stiff, resembling spun glass, set on the sides with vibrating cilia, which by their motion up one side and down the other of each tentacle, produce a current which impels their living food into the mouth.
Like Actinia, it has a membranous covering, a simple sac-like stomach, a central mouth, a disk surrounded by contractile and adhesive tentacles.
The conjunctiva was insensible and there was no contractile response of the pupil to the light of a candle.
After death it was found that none of the viscera were wounded, and death was attributed to the fact that the in-rush of air counterbalancing the pressure within the lungs left them to their own contractile force, with resultant collapse, obstruction to the circulation, and death.