stricture
noun
a remark or comment, especially an adverse criticism.
strictured
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a word derived from
stricture.
Example Sentences
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“The global economy is strictured around growth — the idea that firms, industries, and nations must increase production every year, regardless of whatever is needed,” reads the screenshot excerpt.
From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2024
The closed blades are to be inserted through the strictured area, opened, and then slowly withdrawn.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson
They sometimes result from external stimuli, especially of a pathological nature, such as a strictured prepuce, or inflammatory states of the penis.
From The Sexual Life of the Child by Eden Paul
The strictured lumen is to be centered in the esophagoscopic field, and three successively increasing sizes of bougies are used under direct vision.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson
The intestine was opened at the end of the discovered intus-susceptio, and immediately a part of the strictured intestine came into view.
From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Franklin Bache
