stricture
IPA: strˈɪktʃɝ
noun
- (usually in the plural) A rule restricting behaviour or action.
- A general state of restrictiveness on behavior, action, or ideology.
- A sternly critical remark or review.
- (medicine) Abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body.
- (obsolete) Strictness.
- (obsolete) A stroke; a glance; a touch.
- (linguistics) The degree of contact, in consonants.
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Examples of "stricture" in Sentences
- He accepted all the strictures he got.
- Does the stricture apply only to names
- This is the stricture against petitions.
- He was depressed after he received stricture.
- The stricture is about 3 to 5 mm in diameter.
- As a result, excrement bypasses the anal stricture.
- Called a stricture, this can make it hard or painful to swallow.
- It's a bizarre religious stricture and it belongs in the dark ages.
- A stricture is a narrowing of the urethra severe enough to obstruct flow.
- The same stricture is applicable to those who define God to be mere Being;
- The blood that is visible is from the endoscope bumping into the stricture.
- Initially, bougies were used to dilate benign strictures of the oesophagus.
- That the testicles are very apt to suffer from the existence of a stricture is a well-known fact.
- It requires strength and precision to divide thoroughly the indurated stricture, which is apt to elude the knife.
- Ratliffe really hasn't made full use of that stricture, which is also designed to put him at the free-throw line more.
- It is in cases of this latter kind of stricture that experience has demonstrated the necessity of opening the sac (a proceeding otherwise not only needless, but objectionable) and dividing its constricted neck.
- The possible consequences of a stricture are the very worst imaginable; and a person who has acquired this unfortunate condition, is certain to be subjected to many inconveniences, and may be compelled to endure great suffering therefrom.
- Well I think, Judy, this problem is called a stricture where there can be scarring around the connection between the stomach pouch and the intestines and often this can be relieved by a procedure called endoscopy where the surgeon goes in and actually stretches that area.
- Indeed if applied to the historian E.P. Thompson (whom Garton Ash mentions but whose research techniques he clearly cannot reproduce), this stricture translates into a view that The Making of the English Working Class may be fatally flawed because its author wasn't present during the Chartist era.
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