Sentence examples for cause contractions from inspiring English sources

But do contractions cause uncertainty, they ask, or does uncertainty cause contractions?

Dr. Artal agreed: "It requires a lot of activity to generate a sufficient rise in hormones to cause contractions".

Orgasm is marked by a feeling of sudden and intense pleasure, an abrupt increase in pulse rate and blood pressure, and spasms of the pelvic muscles that cause contractions of the lower vagina in the female and contractions of the urethra and ejaculation by the male.

But 3 years ago, researchers discovered that the mucus covering the dart contains substances that cause contractions near the recipient's bursa copulatrix, an organ that normally digests the vast majority of received sperm.

Misoprostol, the second pill, is taken 24 to 48 hours later to cause contractions that empty the uterus.

Overproduction of F2 can cause contractions and activate matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) [22] [24], possibly leading to degradation of the extracellular matrix (ECM).

(3) The somatic nerves cause contraction of the external sphincter; their sensory fibres relay information as to the state of distension of the posterior urethra.

These SMA-containing cells were found to cause contraction of the collagen-GAG analog of extracellular matrix.

Strains due to recovery of the metastable Au cause contraction of the film and the development of intrinsic tensile film stresses.

At the vertebrate neuromuscular junction (NMJ) motor nerve-secreted acetylcholine (ACh) binds and opens postsynaptic ACh receptors (AChRs) to initiate excitation along the muscle membrane and cause contraction.

For epinephrine treatment (to cause contraction of melanocytes) embryos were exposed to epinephrine (Sigma) 1 mg/ml for 10 minutes and then fixed in cold 4% paraformaldehyde.