contractile organ

/kənˌtræktəl ˌɔrgən/

Other forms: contractile organs

Definitions of contractile organ

1. noun

   a bodily organ that contracts
   synonyms: contractor

   types:

   muscle, musculus

   one of the contractile organs of the body

   skeletal muscle, striated muscle

   a muscle that is connected at either or both ends to a bone and so move parts of the skeleton; a muscle that is characterized by transverse stripes

   pronator

   a muscle that produces or assists in pronation

   supinator

   a muscle (especially in the forearm) that produces or assists in supination

   levator

   a muscle that serves to lift some body part (as the eyelid or lip)

   antagonistic muscle

   (physiology) a muscle that opposes the action of another

   eye muscle, ocular muscle

   one of the small muscles of the eye that serve to rotate the eyeball

   rectus

   any of various straight muscles

   involuntary muscle, smooth muscle

   a muscle that contracts without conscious control and found in walls of internal organs such as stomach and intestine and bladder and blood vessels (excluding the heart)

   anatomical sphincter, sphincter, sphincter muscle

   a ring of muscle that contracts to close an opening

   tensor

   any of several muscles that cause an attached structure to become tense or firm

   type of:

   organ

   a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function