Usually means: Permanent shortening of muscle, tissue.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. contracture: Merriam-Webster
  2. contracture: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. contracture: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. contracture: Collins English Dictionary
  5. contracture: Vocabulary.com
  6. Contracture, contracture: Wordnik
  7. contracture: Wiktionary
  8. contracture: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. contracture: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. contracture: Dictionary.com
  11. Contracture: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Contracture: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. contracture: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. contracture: Rhymezone
  15. Contracture: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. contracture: FreeDictionary.org
  17. contracture: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. contracture: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. contracture: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. contracture: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Contracture: Merck Manuals
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  6. contracture: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  7. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  8. contracture: Medical dictionary
  9. Contracture: Brain Injury
  10. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (contracture)

▸ noun:  (medicine) An abnormal, sometimes permanent, contraction of a muscle or skin; a deformity so caused.

Similar:
hypercontracture, clonus, phimosis, myotasis, acrocontracture, hypertonia, dystonia, arthrogryposis, tetany, fibrosis, more...

Opposite:
extension, relaxation, expansion

Phrases:
Capsular contracture, ischemic contracture, joint contracture, wound contracture, dupuytren contracture, more...

Adjectives:
ischemic, joint, capsular, severe, ischaemic, secondary, permanent, muscular, soft, intrinsic, fibrous

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Similar:
hypercontracture, clonus, phimosis, myotasis, acrocontracture, hypertonia, dystonia, arthrogryposis, tetany, fibrosis, more...

Opposite:
extension, relaxation, expansion

Phrases:
Capsular contracture, ischemic contracture, joint contracture, wound contracture, dupuytren contracture, tendon contracture, hip contracture, contracture deformity, flexor contracture, dupuytrens contracture, more...

Adjectives:
ischemic, joint, capsular, severe, ischaemic, secondary, permanent, muscular, soft, intrinsic, fibrous



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