Usually means: Heart muscle's ability to contract.
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  1. contractility: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. contractility: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. contractility: Collins English Dictionary
  4. contractility: Vocabulary.com
  5. contractility: Wordnik
  6. contractility: Wiktionary
  7. contractility: Dictionary.com
  8. Contractility: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Contractility: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. contractility: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. contractility: Rhymezone
  12. Contractility: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. contractility: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. contractility: Free Dictionary
  15. contractility: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Contractility: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. contractility: Encyclopedia

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  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  4. contractility: Medical dictionary

(Note: See contractile as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (contractility)

noun:  The condition of being able to contract or shrink (used especially of muscles).
noun:  The extent to which something contracts or shrinks.
noun:  (physiology) The performance of cardiac muscle.

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