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capable of contracting or being contracted; "the contractile wings of an insect"
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| contractile vacuole |
Vacuoles are large membrane-bound compartments within some eukaryotic cells where they serve a variety of different functions: capturing food materials or unwanted structural debris surrounding the cell, sequestering materials that might be toxic to the cell, maintaining fluid balance (called turgor) within the cell, exporting unwanted substances from the cell, or even determining relative cell size. ...
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| contractile |
Muscles power the body by contraction. The proteins that enable the muscle to produce force on this contraction are actin and myosin. Accordingly these proteins are known as contractile proteins.
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| contractile vacuole |
A membrane-bound vesicle that expands and contracts to expel excess water
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| contractile |
drawing together resulting in decreased size or bulk.
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