Assertion: contraction | /r/HasProperty | the shortening of muscles
Facets:
value: anatomically
type: MANNER
value: to pump blood
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: Anatomically, a contraction is the shortening of muscles, more specifically such actions as the squeezing of heart muscles to pump blood, or the peristaltic movements that propel a fetus through the birth canal.
text: Anatomically, contraction is the shortening of muscles, more specifically such actions as the squeezing of heart muscles to pump blood, or the peristaltic movements that propel a fetus through the birth canal.