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.
- 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 blood that is visible is from the endoscope bumping into the stricture.
- Initially, bougies were used to dilate benign strictures of the oesophagus.