"Myophan" is a word in ENGLISH

A weakening or cessation of the contractile power of the heart.

Want of tone; weakness of the system, or of any organ, especially of such as are contractile.

A contractile cell or vesicle containing liquid pigment and capable of changing its form or size, thus causing changes of …

tending to contract; having the power or property of contracting, or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions; as, the …

The quality or property by which bodies shrink or contract.

The power possessed by the fibers of living muscle of contracting or shortening.

A thin layer of peculiar contractile tissue directly beneath the skin of the scrotum.

The contractile membrane perforated by the pupil, and forming the colored portion of the eye. See Eye.

A natural susceptibility, characteristic of all living organisms, tissues, and cells, to the influence of certain stimuli, response being manifested …

Capability of motion; contractility.

The contractile tissue of which muscles are largely made up.

Any contractile vessel of invertebrates which is not of the nature of a real heart, especially one of those pertaining …

The reproduction or renewal of tissues, cells, etc., which have been used up and destroyed by the ordinary processes of …

The minute breathing pores of leaves or other organs opening into the intercellular spaces, and usually bordered by two contractile …

One of the changes of assimilation, in which proteid matter which has been transformed, and made a part of the …

Any one of numerous species of ciliated Infusoria belonging to Vorticella and many other genera of the family Vorticellidae. They …