What is "strangulate"

Usage examples of "strangulate".

Because of his contorted neck, though, his voice was only a strangulated whisper.

For an in-stant, all he heard were his own strangulated gasps as he fought for air and struggled against the cloak of darkness settling over his mind.

When the hernia has become strangulated and cannot be returned by manipulation, a surgical operation is necessary.

The operation consists in cutting down upon the strangulated bowel, thus relieving it of its constriction and facilitating its replacement.

I shall never forget the kind treatment I received from your physicians and nurses during the time I had to stay in your house, while our Herman had to go through that dangerous operation which was necessary to cure his strangulated rupture.

Mason describes the case of a man of sixty-five who, after death by strangulated hernia, was opened, and two inches from the ileocecal valve was found an earthen egg-cup which he had swallowed.

Breuer and Freud are correct in stating that the operative force of the idea which was not abreacted by allowing its strangulated effect to find a way out in speech or action must be relived—brought back, in other words—to its status nascendi.

It is but an ambuscaded enemy whose sole interest in life is to lie in wait for stray grapeseeds and employ them to breed strangulated hernia.

The relative niceness of the morning had brought citizens, virtually house-bound for the past two weeks by the unstinting storms, out in droves, and the Steel Market was crowded with servants in livery, beggars in rags, students in their gray gowns, and bourgeois gentlemen in the familiar black, white ruffs of varying width and extravagance nodding like dandelion puffs around their strangulated throats.