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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stricture
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 to start with.
▪ The rectum was the commonest site of benign strictures, 68% in our study, as in others.
▪ In fact, there seems to be a general predilection of benign strictures for the left side of the colon.
▪ Of the patients with benign strictures, 32 had universal colitis and 10 had left sided involvement alone.
▪ Figure 1 shows the proportions of benign and malignant strictures by duration of colitis.
▪ In several large series from other countries, however, corrosive ingestion was responsible for only 1-4% of benign oesophageal strictures.
▪ The most striking aspect of our study is the difference in presenting symptoms associated with benign v malignant strictures.
biliary
▪ We have reviewed our experience of exfoliative cytology in the management of patients with biliary tract strictures.
▪ The role of endoscopic stenting for postoperative biliary strictures is still debated.
▪ Improved methods of obtaining a tissue diagnosis are therefore becoming essential to the management of biliary tract strictures.
▪ Self expandable biliary stents have been used for palliative treatment of malignant biliary strictures.
▪ Does cholangiography establish the nature of a biliary stricture?
▪ A wide variety of safe and effective methods is now available for obtaining a cytological diagnosis in patients with biliary strictures.
malignant
▪ Their use in malignant strictures provides immediate drainage, avoiding the early complications encountered with plastic stents.
▪ Six patients, all with malignant strictures, had bile samples taken at both endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography and percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography.
▪ It is not certain whether benign strictures degenerate into malignancy or whether malignant strictures are carcinomas to start with.
▪ Sixteen percent of the patients with left sided colitis developed malignant strictures compared with 31% of the patients with universal colitis.
▪ Figure 1 shows the proportions of benign and malignant strictures by duration of colitis.
▪ The most striking aspect of our study is the difference in presenting symptoms associated with benign v malignant strictures.
▪ In this study we have examined both benign and malignant colorectal strictures in ulcerative colitis and have compared their features.
▪ How are we to separate benign from malignant strictures?
oesophageal
▪ Endoscopic dilatation is safe and effective for short and long term relief of dysphagia in patients with corrosive oesophageal strictures.
▪ In several large series from other countries, however, corrosive ingestion was responsible for only 1-4% of benign oesophageal strictures.
▪ We have reported that endoscopic dilatation is an effective and safe short term treatment for corrosive oesophageal strictures.
peptic
▪ This figure is comparable with the success rate in our peptic stricture patients as well as in several other reports.
▪ Of 69 patients with more than six months follow up, 36 belonged to the corrosive group and 33 had a peptic stricture.
▪ The dysphagia recurrence rate during follow up was higher in the corrosive than in the peptic stricture group.
■ NOUN
duct
▪ Patients presenting with obstructive jaundice caused by bile duct stricture may be managed by either surgery or stenting.
▪ A straight 10 F endoprosthesis was used in the five patients with a bile duct stricture distal to the stones.
▪ The date of diagnosis was defined as the point when radiological evidence of intrahepatic and/or extrahepatic duct strictures were first demonstrated.
▪ We have advocated initial endoscopic stenting for bile duct strictures after open cholecystectomy.
▪ The overall contribution of exfoliative bile cytology to the diagnosis of bile duct strictures is shown in Figure 3.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For all of its own bureaucratic strictures, the diplomatic corps had the sympathetic ears that Liang was looking for.
▪ Many thought Dole should at least relinquish his post of Senate majority leader to gain freedom from legislative strictures.
▪ The main difference is that Jerry Springer's guests have not taken Hope Steadman's strictures about yelling to heart.
▪ Unfortunately he applied the same stricture to himself and some of his works are rather limited.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stricture

Stricture \Stric"ture\, n. [L. strictura a contraction, from stringere, strictum, to draw tight: cf. F. stricture. See Strict.]

  1. Strictness. [Obs.]

    A man of stricture and firm abstinence.
    --Shak.

  2. A stroke; a glance; a touch. [Obs.]
    --Sir M. Hale.

  3. A touch of adverse criticism; censure.

    [I have] given myself the liberty of these strictures by way of reflection on all and every passage.
    --Hammond.

  4. (Med.) A localized morbid contraction of any passage of the body. Cf. Organic stricture, and Spasmodic stricture, under Organic, and Spasmodic.
    --Arbuthnot.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stricture

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 from the other Latin word stringere "to touch lightly" (see strigil).

Wiktionary
stricture

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 English) a stroke; a glance; a touch 6 (context linguistics English) the degree of contact, in consonants

WordNet
stricture

  1. n. abnormal narrowing of a bodily canal or passageway [syn: stenosis]

  2. severe criticism

Wikipedia
Stricture

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.