Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Affected with stricture: as, a strictured duct.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Med.) Affected with a stricture.
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- adjective Affected with a
stricture .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"A room like this offers the opportunity to light upon things rather than be strictured into studying them."
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Kurt comes up behind me, slides his hands around my strictured waist, and kisses my neck.
If I Am Missing or Dead Janine Latus 2007
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Kurt comes up behind me, slides his hands around my strictured waist, and kisses my neck.
If I Am Missing or Dead Janine Latus 2007
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There was no debate as to whether what I suggested could be strictured properly to limit the amount of abuse while maximizing public safety.
The Interesting Thing About LiveJournal lordindra 2004
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There was a fat little girl Ramona wearing a corset that must have strictured her bloody.
White Jazz Ellroy, James, 1948- 1992
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If the membranous part of the urethra be that where the stricture exists, a staff with a central groove is to be passed as far as the strictured part, and having ascertained the position of the instrument by the finger in the bowel, the perinaeum should be incised, at the middle line, between the bulb of the urethra and the anus.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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-- The urethra being strictured, the bladder has become sacculated.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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The reason of this must be immediately evident: false passages are ordinarily made in consequence of the difficulty experienced in the endeavour to pass an instrument through the strictured portion of the tube.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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The anal canal may be said to be strictured to the degree in which it is unable to dilate normally, and this strictured condition usually grows from bad to worse.
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With many persons a certain amount of undue accumulation of feces will excite a sufficient muscular effort of the gut to force the dried mass through the proctitis - and colitis-strictured bowels.
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