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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, "abnormal narrowing in a body part," from Late Latin strictura "contraction, constriction," from past participle stem of stringere (2) "to bind or draw tight" (see strain (v.)). Sense of "criticism, critical remark" is first recorded 1650s, perhaps ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE benign ▪ The pathogenesis of benign stricture formation in ulcerative colitis remains uncertain. ▪ It is not certain whether benign strictures degenerate into malignancy or whether malignant strictures are carcinomas ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. abnormal narrowing of a bodily canal or passageway [syn: stenosis ] severe criticism
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context usually in plural English) a rule restricting behaviour or action 2 a sternly critical remark or review 3 (context medicine English) abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body 4 (context obsolete English) strictness 5 (context obsolete ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stricture \Stric"ture\, n. [L. strictura a contraction, from stringere, strictum, to draw tight: cf. F. stricture. See Strict .] Strictness. [Obs.] A man of stricture and firm abstinence. --Shak. A stroke; a glance; a touch. [Obs.] --Sir M. Hale. A touch ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Stricture may refer to: stricture (medicine) , a narrowing of a tubular structure,. esophageal stricture , in medicine a feature of the Perl programming language tenet, in religion degree of contact , in a consonant
Usage examples of stricture.
It is excellent in neuralgia, epilepsy, mania, amaurosis, whooping-cough, stricture, rigidity of the os uteri, and is supposed by some to be a prophylactic or preventive of Scarlet Fever.
A frequent cause of barrenness is stricture of the neck of the uterus.
Condition of the Urethra with three Strictures and a congenital contraction at the meatus or outlet.
Certain affections of the womb and its appendages, in women, and, in men, stricture of the urethra, adherent prepuce, or foreskin, with wounds and injuries, many times of nerves and organs remote from the paralyzed points, cause the loss of power.
Spigelia Marilandica 314 Spinal Column 24 Spinal Cord 25, 90 Spinal Cord, Reflex Action of the 93 Spinal Curvature, Posterior 898 Spinal Nerves 89 Spirit Vapor-bath 362 Spirometer 391, 392 Spleen 44 Sponge Bath 365 Sprains 892 Squaw-root 305 Stapes 110 Static Electrical Machine 629 Sterility 707 Sternum 23 Stethoscope 391 Stimulants 348 Stomach 39, 52 Stomach, Inflammation of the 882, 884 Stomach, Neuralgia of the 885 Stomatitis 553 Stomatitis Materna 554 Stone in the Bladder 838 Stone-pock 442 Stone-root 337 Story of Sexual Abuse 394 Stramonium 344 Striae 31 Stricture of the Urethra 775, 843 Strumous Diathesis 445 Strumous Synovius 453 St.
His breath was heavy and fast, as if his heart had been strictured by a heavy invisible hand.
He had learned that cells held no fear for him and that the discipline of prisons seemed almost lax to him after following the strictures of the Trappist rule for so long.
Pleasure or pain unending, undiminished and uncurtailed by the strictures of life or death.
The Amazonian social structure, with its strictures on male activity, has nothing to do with masculine intelligence or capability.
For the American counterinsurgent there are ideological strictures that preclude U.
It was the Ladders she really wanted, the strictures against them repeated by her father and Garon and Anniyas until it was damned near impossible for her to resist using one.
Headaches or neuralgic pains, due to local irritations, as uterine disease, stricture, neurotic or nerve tumors, pressure of trusses, eye strain from weakened eye muscles, or lenses that need the help of proper spectacles, require for a permanent cure the removal of the cause.
Initial proctitis and the inevit4ble purulent discharge -- which may pass unnoticed in the shuRe -- is followed by stricture of the rectum requiring intervention of an apple corer or its surgical equivalent, lest the unfortunate patient be reduced to fart and shit in his teeth giving rise to stubborn cases of halitosis and unpopularity with all sexes, ages and conditions of homo sapiens.
Staples records a case of pregnancy and parturition with congenital stricture of the vagina.
We were the embodiment of a fiery Sapphic romance gone awry under the merciless strictures of Victorian society.