Soph: alternatives and connections

To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken.

The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which…

A contraction for are not and am not; also used for is not. [Colloq. or illiterate speech]. See An't.

A contraction of amperometer or amperemeter.

a drug (trade name Inocor) used intravenously in heart failure; increases strength of contraction of myocardium

A contraction for are and am not; also used for is not; -- now usually written ain't.

The contraction of a word by the omission of a letter or letters, which omission is marked by the character ['] placed where the lette…

Constriction or contraction of some natural passage, as in constipation from inflammation.

A contraction of art thou.

A disease, characterized by difficulty of breathing (due to a spasmodic contraction of the bronchi), recurring at intervals, accompani…

A contraction of parts by applications; the action of an astringent substance on the animal economy.

The quality of being astringent; the power of contracting the parts of the body; that quality in medicines or other substances which c…

A medicine or other substance that produces contraction in the soft organic textures, and checks discharges of blood, mucus, etc.

a drug that causes contraction of body tissues and canals

An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air throug…

A mollusk having a shell consisting of two lateral plates or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which is usua…

Contraction into few words; conciseness.

any of a class of drugs that block the flow of the electrolyte calcium (either in nerve cell conduction or smooth muscle contraction o…