Definition:
contractions
- contractionsA shortening of the uterine muscles occurring at intervals before and during childbirth
- contractionsThe process of becoming smaller
- contractionsA word or group of words resulting from shortening an original form
- contractionsCONTRACTION, the act of contracting
- contractionsThe process of shortening a word by combination or elision
- contractionsThe process in which a muscle becomes or is made shorter and tighter