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US
/kənˈstɹɪktəd/
]
[ UK /kənstɹˈɪktɪd/ ]
[ UK /kənstɹˈɪktɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- especially tense; especially in some dialects
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drawn together or squeezed physically or by extension psychologically
a constricted view of life
a constricted blood vessel
How To Use constricted In A Sentence
- These constricted unmyelinated regions are called nodes of Ran-vier (rahn-vee-ay), after the French histologist Louis Antoine The Human Brain
- It consists of a base, directly continuous with the base of the anterior horn, and a neck or slightly constricted portion, which is succeeded by an oval or fusiform area, termed the head, of which the apex approaches the posterolateral sulcus. IX. Neurology. 3. The Spinal Cord or Medulla Spinalis
- Is India "constricted" because we have adopted "old standards" like HTML and Unicode? Archive 2009-07-08
- What had happened was that the passage of electrical current created huge magnetic forces which constricted the tube.
- These constricted walkways close one in but then open into wide courtyards where young maidens dance around wells, their sing-song voices light and lustrous.
- Men and women alike have been constricted by traditional sexual roles.
- In many ammonites the terminal body chamber is relatively large, inflated, and with a constricted aperture or apertural appendages.
- She does not want to be constricted by a narrow feminism nor does she accept the cultural burden handed to her as a woman.
- What had happened was that the passage of electrical current created huge magnetic forces which constricted the tube.
- Closed-angle glaucoma is when the channels in the eyes narrow or harden and become constricted or obstructed not allowing the interocular fluids to drain from the eye. Human Eye: Part 2