Sentence examples for state of contraction from inspiring English sources

This corresponds to the state of contraction in intact muscle.

He lives in a permanent state of contraction and the stretching is like to break him".

Because when you work a muscle, you contract it, and unless you stretch it out afterward, it will remain slightly in a state of contraction.

Instead, the state of contraction of an arthropod muscle is determined by which of several different types of neurons supplying one muscle cell are fired.

Drugs affect blood vessels by altering the state of contraction of the smooth muscle in the vessel wall, altering its diameter and thereby regulating the volume of blood flow.

Regardless of the mechanism, the modulation of cross-bridge cycling rate represents a highly economical means of generating force in a muscle that often exists in a tonic state of contraction.

There are a great many varieties of mechanical receptors in animals, but best known are the receptors that mediate touch, the variety of hair cell receptors in vertebrates that mediate hearing (the acoustico-lateralis system), and the muscle spindle proprioceptors that monitor the state of muscle contraction.

The cell surface is in a state of isotropic contraction, which causes the cell to assume a spherical shape.

Based on these observations, it has been suggested that cells cultured on substrates having a modulus equal to or greater than that of stiff gels are in a state of isometric contraction.

Non-clonal cells represent cells in which unique structural arrangements, telomeric fusions, somatic exchanges and/or different states of chromosome contraction occur.

They contain a number of sensory endings the primary functions of which are to regulate muscle tonus (a state of partial muscular contraction) and to determine the position and movements of the head and body.