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constriction
1. Tightness, a constricted part; a feeling of pressure.
2. Something that constricts or the process of becoming narrower, or of making something more narrow.
3. Anything that severely restricts someone's freedom of movement, action, or expression.
2. Something that constricts or the process of becoming narrower, or of making something more narrow.
3. Anything that severely restricts someone's freedom of movement, action, or expression.
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string-, strict-, strain-, -stringence, -stringency, -stringe, -stringent
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-tion
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“constriction”
the compression of the pylorus which is he valve-like opening connecting the stomach to the small intestine: Since Joe was having terrible stomach pains, he went to see Dr. Smart who, after examining him thoroughly, told him that he had a pyloric constriction which had to be operated on immediately.
A pyloric constriction is a prominent fold of mucous membrane at the gastroduodenal junction overlying the pyloric sphincter or the thickening of the circular layer of the gastric musculature (stomach muscle) encircling the gastroduodenal junction (place where the stomach and small intestine meet).
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pylor-, pyloro-, pylori- +
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