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A muscle which contracts or closes an orifice, or which compresses an organ; a sphincter.

A serpent that kills its prey by inclosing and crushing it with its folds; as, the boa constrictor.

That which binds or squeezes; a serpent that crushes its prey.

1. Anything which binds or squeezes a part. 2. A muscle the action of which is to narrow a canal, a sphincter; see under musculus.

Applied to muscles that contract.

That which draws together: a serpent which crushes its prey in its folds.

A serpent which crushes its prey in its folds.

That which constricts; a serpent. as a boa, that crushes its prey.

That which contracts or draws together; a muscle which draws together; as the constrictor labrorum, or muscle of the lips; a species of serpent, as the boa constrictor, which kills its prey in its coils.

That which contracts or draws together; a large species of serpent, as the boa constrictor.

A muscle which compresses or constricts, e.g., constrictor urethrae.

From constringere, (con, and stringere, strictum,) to bind. (F.) Constricteur. That which binds in a circular direction. A sphincter. Different muscles are so called.

Anything that exerts constriction, especially a constricting muscle. See table of muscles. [Lat.]

n. That which draws together, or contracts; —one of certain muscles which contract parts or organs of the body. Boa constrictor, a serpent which winds its folds round its prey, and crushes it.

That which compresses or contracts.