tractile

How To Use tractile In A Sentence

• Maximum contractile and relaxant responses to the relevant antagonists were expressed as a percentage of the control maximum response.
• The morphology of the middle and distal phalanx in Tapocyon exhibits a retractile claw condition, supporting this as the primitive condition for Carnivora / Carnivoramorpha.
• Think of actin and myosin, the contractile proteins. An Amazing Design Material
• Spores may be demonstrated by phase-contrast microscopy of wet mounts, where they appear mature and retractile.
• The contractile vacuole is terminal, the proboscis is short, slightly raised and separated from the body by a deep cleft; the buccal cilia are inserted part way up on the proboscis. Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901
• Like the latter, there is one caudal bristle, but unlike it there is only one posterior contractile vacuole, while the endoplasm is filled with large granules or food balls. Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901
• Locomotor skeletal muscle protein synthesis is sensitive to contractile activity and rapidly decreases within the first hours of reduced use.
• She spoke at length about its complex system of color-nodes, its powerful contractile capacity. MAJIPOOR CHRONICLES
• The feeding zooids use retractile tentacles, called the lophophore, to filter feed and have a U-shaped gut for digestion.
• The contractile vacuole is subterminal and dorsal; it is questionable whether there are canals leading to it. Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901