| contraction stress test | A test used to evaluate foetal well-being by inducing contractions and analyzing the foetal heart rate response. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| contraction, uterine | The tightening and shortening of the uterine muscles. During labour, contractions accomplish two things: (1) they cause the cervix to thin and dilate (open); and (2) they aid the baby to descend into the birth canal. (12 Dec 1998) |
| contractual psychiatry | Psychiatric intervention voluntarily assumed by the patient, who is prompted by his personal difficulties or suffering and who retains control over his participation with the psychiatrist. (05 Mar 2000) |
| contractual psychotherapy | Psychotherapy based on a firm agreement, or "contract," between therapist and patient as to the role of each in the therapeutic situation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| contractural diathesis | A tendency to have contractures in hysteria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| contracture | <orthopaedics> A condition of fixed high resistance to passive stretch of a muscle, resulting from fibrosis of the tissues supporting the muscles or the joints or from disorders of the muscle fibres. Origin: L. Contractura (18 Nov 1997) |
| contracture deformity | Deformity of a limb without discernable primary changes of bone. (05 Mar 2000) |
| 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. ...
출처: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contractile_vacuole
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| contraction band |
one of the bands seen by light microscopy in fully contracted muscle on either side of the Z band, caused by distortion of the ends of the myosin filaments by the Z band.
출처: www.merckmedicus.com/pp/us/hcp/thcp_dorlands_conte...
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| contract |
A legal instrument reflecting a relationship between the United States Government and a State, a local government, or other recipient when (1) the principal purpose of the instrument is to acquire (by purchase, lease, or barter) property or services for the direct benefit or use of the United States Government; or (2) the agency decides in a specific instance that the use of a procurement contract is appropriate. (31 USC 6303)
출처: https://radius.rand.org/radius/demo/glossary.html
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| contracture |
Damage to a muscle or surrounding tissue that causes them to become shorter. This leads to deformity of nearby joints.
출처: www.spinalnet.co.uk/EEndCom/GBCON/homepage.nsf/0/7...
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| contracture |
inability to move a joint due to a permanent rigidity or contraction of a muscle.
출처: ymghealthinfo.org/content.asp
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| Contract | a variety of bridge in which the bidder receives points toward game only for the number of tricks he bid |
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| Contract | consent in writing to pay money to a trade union for political use |
| Contract | that branch of jurisprudence that studies the rights and obligations of parties entering into contracts |
| Contract | a contract that heavily restricts one party while leaving the other free (as some standard form printed contracts) |
| Contract | a sale of a tract of land as a whole without a warranty as to the acreage |
| Contract | offer by an employer to contract to pay an employee at a given rate |
| Contract | refuse to pay a levy to a union for political use |
| Contract | assign a job to someone outside one's own business |
| Contract | a contract that is signed and has the (wax) seal of the signer attached |
| Contract | (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection |
| Contract | reduced in size or pulled together |
| Contract | capable of contracting or being contracted |