STRANGULATION
\stɹˈanɡjʊlˈe͡ɪʃən], \stɹˈanɡjʊlˈeɪʃən], \s_t_ɹ_ˈa_n_ɡ_j_ʊ_l_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of STRANGULATION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe; "no evidence that the choking was done by the accused"
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(pathology) constriction of a body part so as to cut off the flow of blood or other fluid; "strangulation of the intestine"
By Princeton University
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the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe; "no evidence that the choking was done by the accused"
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(pathology) constriction of a body part so as to cut off the flow of blood or other fluid; "strangulation of the intestine"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The act of strangling, or the state of being strangled.
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Inordinate compression or constriction of a tube or part, as of the throat; especially, such as causes a suspension of breathing, of the passage of contents, or of the circulation, as in cases of hernia.
By Oddity Software
By William R. Warner
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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State of a part too closely constricted. Thus we say that there is strangulation of an intestinal hernia, when the opening that gives passage to the portion of protruded intestine contracts, so as to intercept the continuity of the digestive canal. In Legal Medicine, it means the forcible obstruction of the air passages, by a ligature or by the hand, for criminal purposes. See Suffocation.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The act of choking; the state of being asphyxiated by choking.
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A constriction; the state of being constricted so as to endanger the life of the part shut off by the stricture. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. Act of strangling ; suffocation ; -inordinate compression or constriction.
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