contracture
Meaning of contracture
- a condition of shortening and hardening of muscles, tendons, or other tissue, often leading to deformity and rigidity of joints.
contracture of the hip in cerebral palsy
the contractures had been caused by intramuscular injections
mid 17th century: from French, or from Latin contractura, from Latin contract- ‘drawn together’, from the verb contrahere .
Information about contracture
- It is a name.
- The plural form of contracture is: contractures.
- Languages in which contracture is used:
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Hyphenation of contracture
con-trac-ture
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- contracture is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
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