contractures

Meaning of contractures

plural noun
  1. 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 contractures

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of contractures is: contracture.
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Hyphenation of contractures

con-trac-tures

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 12 chars.
  • contractures is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

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