The ability of muscles to contract in response to faradic electrical stimulation; muscle contractility induced by faradic current.
Compound from faradic plus contractility (from Latin contrahere, 'to draw together'), combining faradic current with the property of muscle contraction.
Measuring 'faradocontractility' became a way for doctors to objectively test nerve and muscle function—it's a clunky word, but it represented early attempts to quantify what were previously purely subjective observations of paralyzed patients.
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