kontraksi

Etymology
From, from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) a reversible reduction in size.
 * 2)  a shortening of a muscle during its use.
 * 3)  a strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth.
 * 4)  a distinct stage of wound healing, wherein the wound edges are gradually pulled together.
 * 5)  a process whereby one or more sounds of a free morpheme (a word) are lost or reduced, such that it becomes a bound morpheme (a clitic) that attaches phonologically to an adjacent word.
 * 1)  a strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth.
 * 2)  a distinct stage of wound healing, wherein the wound edges are gradually pulled together.
 * 3)  a process whereby one or more sounds of a free morpheme (a word) are lost or reduced, such that it becomes a bound morpheme (a clitic) that attaches phonologically to an adjacent word.
 * 1)  a process whereby one or more sounds of a free morpheme (a word) are lost or reduced, such that it becomes a bound morpheme (a clitic) that attaches phonologically to an adjacent word.