Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A constriction or narrowing of a duct or passage; a stricture.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The pathological narrowing of a passage.
Wiktionary
- n. medicine An abnormal narrowing or stricture in a blood vessel or other tubular organ.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Med.) A narrowing of the opening or hollow of any passage, tube, or orifice. It differs from
stricture in being applied especially to diffused rather than localized contractions, and in always indicating an origin organic and not spasmodic.
WordNet 3.0
- n. abnormal narrowing of a bodily canal or passageway
Etymologies
- Greek stenōsis, a narrowing, from stenoun, to narrow, from stenos, narrow. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“But Tim Russert, when they did the autopsy, he did have disease, what they called stenosis in many vessels.”
“When the scarring from subglottic stenosis is limited to the back part of the vocal cords (inter-arytenoid region), it is called posterior glottic stenosis.”
“Congenital subglottic stenosis is a rare condition in which the airway narrows because the airway cartilage did not form normally in utero.”
“Enlarge+Subglottic stenosis is a narrowing of the airway below the vocal cords (subglottis).”
“Sometimes the stenosis is below the valve, caused by muscular bundles.”
“Sometimes the stenosis is below the valve, caused by a fibrous membrane or a muscular ridge.”
“Tracheal stenosis is a narrowing of the trachea (windpipe) that is caused by an injury or a birth defect:”
“Aortic stenosis is also often associated with other congential heart disorders.”
“Spinal stenosis occurs when bone spurs and other deposits cause the spinal canal to narrow, putting pressure on the spinal cord.”
“Patients in the study suffered from aortic stenosis, which is a narrowing and calcification of the aortic valve.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘stenosis’.
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phrontistery-s
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syzygy, systyle, systematology, systatic, syssitia, syrtic, systaltic, syrt, syrinx, syphilomania, syphilology, syntrierarch and 1593 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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liminal words
transformational, entryway words: thresh(hold), fresh relief
liminal, sill, threshold, aletheia, inscape, adit, introit, maze, pore, porism, portal, port and 114 more...
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steno-
narrow
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free rice
trepang, wain, stenosis, biltong, ablaut, ostler, gorgerin, qindar, hyson, gynoecium, traduce, blenny and 49 more...
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Pathologica
carcinoma, sarcoma, dyscrasia, sclerosis, ictus, intussusception, thrombosis, embolism, sepsis, carcinomatosis, acrochordon, nevus and 58 more...
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Constriction (condition of)
Words related to the condition of being constricted.
coarctation, isthmus, compression, stricture, strictness, stenosis
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A Narrowing
Nouns meaning a narrowing
constriction, angustation, stricture, stenosis, contraction, straitening, attenuation
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