Medicine. Contraction or constriction of organic tissues, the veins, etc. Obsolete.

Pathology. A morbid narrowing of a canal, duct, or passage, esp. of the urethra, œsophagus, or intestine.

Choking, suffocation; (in later use) spec. = suffocation, n. c.

Pathology. Strangulation, stricture. Obsolete.

Pathology and Surgery. Constriction (of a bodily organ, duct, etc.) so as to stop circulation or the passage of fluids.

A morbid condition of contractedness or tightness, or the feeling of such a condition.

Pathology. Obstinate constriction or strangulation of a hernia (see incarcerated adj.); retention of the placenta in parturition.

The contraction or stricture of a passage, duct or canal.