Word Meanings - CONTRACTURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A state of permanent rigidity or contraction of the muscles, generally of the flexor muscles.

• STATESOCIALISM
  A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to give or maintain
• Statelily
  In a stately manner.
• Stateliness
  The quality or state of being stately.
• Contraction
  The act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil of the eye, or of a tendion; the contraction produced by cold.
• Statement
  The act of stating, reciting, or presenting, orally or in paper; as, to interrupt a speaker in the statement of his case.
• Statemonger
  One versed in politics, or one who dabbles in state affairs.
• Generally
  In general; commonly; extensively, though not universally; most frequently.
• Stateprison
  See under State, n.
• Permanent
  Continuing in the same state, or without any change that destroys form or character; remaining unaltered or unremoved; abiding; durable; fixed; stable; lasting; as, a permanent impression.
• Permanently
  In a permanent manner.
• Stateroom
  A magnificent room in a place or great house.
• Rigidity
  The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of form; the amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form; -- opposed to flexibility, ductility, malleability, and softness.
• States-general
  In France, before the Revolution, the assembly of the three orders of the kingdom, namely, the clergy, the nobility, and the third estate, or commonalty.
• Statesmen
  of Statesman
• Statesman
  A man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities.

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