constriction
IPA: kʌnstrˈɪkʃʌn
noun
- The act of constricting, the state of being constricted, or something that constricts.
- A narrow part of something; a stricture.
- A compression.
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Examples of "constriction" in Sentences
- Colic is defined as the constriction of a tube within the body.
- The constriction occurs at the throttle structure in the manifold.
- Epinephrine usually immediately reduces the constriction of the airway.
- His voice sounded oddly gruff, as though there was some kind of constriction in his throat.
- The constriction is a pregnant pause, a signaling moment, to let you know the time is ... now!
- I remember taking a tour of Paris and the very elegant female tour guide kept refering to the "constriction" of certain landmarks.
- Advair inhalers do work well for airway constriction which is the result of the tightening of the muscles around the airways of your lungs.
- Relax had taken this new direction just ahead of the arrival of stress in its sense of inner and psychological as opposed to external forms of oppression and constriction.
- Unfortunately, lower labor costs also constrict and undermine the economy, and that constriction is usually far more destructive than any benefit society might derive from cheaper labor.
- There comes a kind of constriction in a man's throat when he is hungering after lesser good, especially when there is a tinge of evil in the supposed good that he is hungering after, which incapacitates Him from eating the bread of God, which is Jesus Christ.
- It is generally a question of developmental anomalies of widely divergent nature, such as constriction or dilation of the great vessels given off from the heart, of persisting patent communications between them, or of defects in the ventricular or atrial septum.