Organ or Tissue Function
heart contraction
[ hahrt kuhn-trak-shuhn ]
Subclass of:
Cardiovascular Physiological Phenomena; Muscle Contraction
Definitions related to myocardial contraction:
  • (heart contraction) Contractile activity of the myocardium.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • (heart contraction) The multicellular organismal process in which the heart decreases in volume in a characteristic way to propel blood through the body.
    Gene Ontology Dictionary
    Gene Ontology Consortium, 2021
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