Associations to the word «Contracture»

Wiktionary

CONTRACTURE, noun. (medicine) An abnormal, sometimes permanent, contraction of a muscle; a deformity so caused

Dictionary definition

CONTRACTURE, noun. An abnormal and usually permanent contraction of a muscle.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope