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
Extraction of Foreign Bodies from the Strictured Esophagus.—Foreign bodies of relatively small size will lodge in a strictured esophagus.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson
The closed blades are to be inserted through the strictured area, opened, and then slowly withdrawn.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
Actual "corking" of the strictured lumen by a fragment of food, in which case intermittency may be due to partial regurgitation of the "corking" mass with subsequent sinking tightly into the stricture.
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
