CONSTRICTION
\kənstɹˈɪkʃən], \kənstɹˈɪkʃən], \k_ə_n_s_t_ɹ_ˈɪ_k_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of CONSTRICTION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel
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a feeling of tightness in some part of the body; "he felt a constriction in her chest"; "emotion caused a constriction of his throat"
By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The act of constricting by means of some inherent power or by movement or change in the thing itself, as distinguished from compression.
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The state of being constricted; the point where a thing is constricted; a narrowing or binding.
By Oddity Software
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. Binding or contraction of a part. 2. A subjective sensation as if the body or any part were tightly bound or squeezed. 3. Stricture, stenosis.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
