stricture

IPA: strˈɪktʃɝ

Examples of "stricture" in Sentences

Called a stricture, this can make it hard or painful to swallow.
The same stricture is applicable to those who define God to be mere Being;
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.