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strangulation|stræŋgjʊˈleɪʃən|
Also 6 strangulacion.
[ad. L. strangulātiōn-em, n. of action f. strangulāre: see strangle v. Cf. F. strangulation (Cotgr.).]
1. The action or process of stopping respiration by compression of the air-passage, esp. by a sudden and violent compression of the windpipe; the condition of being strangled by such compression.
1542Boorde Dyetary ix. (1870) 251 Surfeting causeth strangulacion and soden death. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. v. 84 So a sponge is mischievous,..because being received into the stomack it swelleth, and..induceth at last a strangulation. 1661J. Childrey Brit. Baconica 40 Its tast is manifestly acide without astriction, but..causing an extream hot strangulation in the mouth. 1793Beddoes Scurvy 81 Had he been carefully observed, his countenance would have shewn signs of strangulation. 1869Dickens Mut. Fr. i. iv, She stopped to pull him down from his chair in an attitude highly favourable to strangulation. 1874Farrar Christ I. iv. 43 He had ordered the strangulation of his favourite wife. 1883Encycl. Brit. XV. 781/1 [Medical Jurisprudence.] Strangulation may be accomplished by drawing a cord tightly round the neck, or by forcibly compressing the windpipe (throttling).
fig.1831Carlyle Sart. Res. iii. iv, To make air for himself in which strangulation, choking enough to a benevolent heart, the Hofrath founds..this Institute [for the Repression of Population].
†b. In full, strangulation of the matrix or womb: hysteria. (Cf. suffocation c.) Obs.
1601Holland Pliny xxxii. x. II. 448 Castoreum..helpeth them when by rising of the mother they are in daunger of strangulation. 1615Crooke Body of Man 218 The strangulation or suffocation of the matrix, which we call fits of the mother. 1634T. Johnson Parey's Wks. xxiv. xliv. 939 The strangulation of the wombe.
2. Path. and Surg. Constriction (of a bodily organ, duct, etc.) so as to stop circulation or the passage of fluids.
1749Gataker tr. Le Dran's Oper. Surg. 55 If the wound penetrates one of the musculi recti, the skin causes a strangulation in the first place. 1807M. Baillie Morbid Anat. 200 A rupture without any strangulation of the intestine. 1890F. Taylor Pract. Med. (1891) 765 There may be severe attacks of so-called strangulation of the [movable] kidney.
3. transf. Excessive constriction of a channel or passage.
1882A. Geikie Geol. Sketches vi. 141 At a point about half a mile or less from the foot of the glacier the valley suddenly contracts... At a point where the strangulation takes place the glacier lies in a kind of basin.
4. concr. A strangulated part; a constriction. spec. in Nat. Hist.
1828Stark Elem. Nat. Hist. II. 185 Head separated from the body by a strangulation. |