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Retractile

adjective
1.
Capable of retraction; capable of being drawn back.





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"Retractile" Quotes from Famous Books



... This admits of a free communication between the currents of blood, and must tend to promote equability of distribution and of pressure, and to obviate the effects of local interruption. The arteries are highly elastic, being extensile and retractile both in length and breadth. During life they are also contractile, being provided with muscular tissue. When cut across they present, although empty, an open orifice; the veins, ...
— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture


Words linked to "Retractile" :   nonretractile, retractable


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