(pathology) constriction of a body part so as to cut off the flow of blood or other fluid

Usage examples of strangulation.

Although Lord Bright had endeavored to refortify and supply the castle, the weeks of strangulation had taken their toll.

Ryabin was waiting to be called across the street to testify in the strangulation murder of a transvestite prostitute, a young Puerto Rican who called himself Monique when he worked the area around Fifteenth and Collins.

A few in the crowd recognized it as the ceremonial knife of the Khond sacrifice of the Meriah, a ritual not openly practiced in India for at least a hundred and fifty years, where a human sacrifice was put to death by strangulation and his body dismembered and spread over the fields to entreat the gods for a good harvest.

And because women have not learned to breathe except through their throats, which these men consider a prime sexual avenue, strangulation is quite common, requiring a trip to the pink room for correction.

It was a fine balance, keeping the tax at a level that the merchants could stomach, and allowing enough contraband through lest the chokehold turn to strangulation and travel between Darujhistan and Pale dried up entirely.

Someone was talking of the case, and maintaining that death by strangulation must be most luxurious as the victim always expires with a strong erection.

Although he'd seen hundreds of corpses, including strangulations and mutilations, in his career, MacDonald felt his breakfast in his throat.

There is a form of strangulation involving the blood flow, not the air flow.

Bagley’s lectures tended to wander off into stories about serial killers he’d processed at Duke, auto-erotic strangulation fatalities, stuff like that.

Unlike Tom Jedd, who carried his severed arm and pretended to use it as a back scratcher out there at Tire World, Robertson was in denial of his death, and he chose not to sport his mortal wound, just as Penny Kallisto had initially manifested without evidence of strangulation, ac&amp.

No blunt trauma, no gunshots, no stab wounds, no poison, no strangulation.

The American navy blockaded the islands, trying to force capitulation by economic strangulation, but the Japanese were entrenched in their conquests, and stealthy lines of supply by ornithopter proved difficult to disrupt.

Over time, by methods of siege and economic strangulation if nothing else, they’.

The nude body of a thin woman who has hemorrhaged to death outside in fifty-degree weather will cool faster and stiffen more slowly than the same woman clothed in a warm room and dead from strangulation.

The petechial hemorrhages on the insides of the eyelids as well as other places, coupled with the lack of substantial bleeding from the head wound, suggest that the strangulation was first, so that by the time of the head injury her heart was no longer pumping or was pumping only weakly.