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nountight or narrow compression
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"he felt a constriction in her chest" "emotion caused a constriction of his throat"nouna tight feeling in some part of the body
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nouna narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel
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Definition that contains constriction
- open without undue constriction as from e.g. tenseness or inhibition
- spasm (pathology) sudden constriction of a hollow organ (as a blood vessel)
- budding reproduction of some unicellular organisms (such as yeasts) by growth and specialization followed by the separation by constriction of a part of the parent
- strangulation (pathology) constriction of a body part so as to cut off the flow of blood or other fluid
- venturi a tube with a constriction; used to control fluid flow (as in the air inlet of a carburetor)
- coarctation (biology) a narrowing or constriction of a vessel or canal; especially a congenital narrowing of the aorta
- ischemia local anemia in a given body part sometimes resulting from vasoconstriction or thrombosis or embolism
- disjunct having deep constrictions separating head, thorax, and abdomen, as in insects
- miotic drug a drug that causes miosis (constriction of the pupil of the eye)
- ischaemia local anemia in a given body part sometimes resulting from vasoconstriction or thrombosis or embolism