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What is the medical term meaning produced by the expansion and contraction of blood as it moves through an artery?
Pulse
What is the medical term meaning shortening or tightening of a muscle?
Contraction is the medical term meaning the normal shortening or tightening of a muscle.
What does contraction mean in medical terms?
contract or "contraction" is when a muscle fiber lengthens or shortens
What is the medical term meaning a hormone that stimulates contraction of the uterus during labor?
The medical term for a hormone that stimulates contraction of the uterus during labor is oxytocin.
What is the medical term meaning condition where muscles shorten and inflexible?
Contracture or contraction
What is the medical term meaning without contraction?
Asystole means without contraction of the heart. Atony is a term used to denote no normal muscle contraction of the uterus.
What is the medical term meaning sudden contraction of a blood vessel?
Angiospasm is sudden contraction of a blood vessel. In contrast, vasoconstriction is the normal process of contraction of a blood vessel.VasoconstrictionAngiospasm
What is the medical term meaning condition of no relaxation?
Tetany is the medical term meaning inability to relax the muscles.
What is the medical term meaning reflex spasm of the diaphragm?
Hiccough or Hiccup.Singultus is the medical term meaning involuntary contraction of the diaphragm. The lay term is hiccup.
What is the medical term meaning produced in bone marrow?
Myelogenous is the medical term meaning produced in bone marrow. Myeloid means the same thing.
What is the medical term meaning a neuromuscular disorder charaterized by by the slow relaxation of the muscle after a voluntary contraction?
Myotonia
What is the medical term meaning the act of kissing?
"The anatomical juxtaposition of two orbicularis oris muscles in a state of contraction."
