Word Meanings - CONTRACTURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

• Statelily
  In a stately manner.
• 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
• 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.
• Generally
  In general; commonly; extensively, though not universally; most frequently.
• Statemonger
  One versed in politics, or one who dabbles in state affairs.
• 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.
• Stateprison
  See under State, n.
• Permanently
  In a permanent manner.
• 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.
• Stateroom
  A magnificent room in a place or great house.
• 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
• Statecraft
  The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship.

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