verb
definition
To stop flow through a vessel.
definition
To strangle.
adjective
definition
Having the circulation stopped by compression; attended with arrest or obstruction of circulation, caused by constriction or compression.
example
a strangulated hernia
definition
Strangled; affected by strangulation.
definition
Contracted at irregular intervals, if tied with a ligature; constricted.
Examples of strangulated in a Sentence
The voice of terrorism is thus strangulated on its own rope courtesy of the internet.
He died unexpectedly on June 4, 1922 from a strangulated hernia, a twisted bowel.
Occasionally there are complications associated with inguinal hernias including death, but these are rare, occurring most often in children who were diagnosed later in childhood or whose hernias were strangulated.
Strangulated hernia-A hernia that is so tightly incarcerated outside the abdominal wall that the intestine is blocked and the blood supply to that part of the intestine is cut off.
She tells her story haltingly in a strangulated voice.
The gentleman in question solved this delicate social problem by requesting a rope in a strangulated tone.
It may not possible to determine if an obstruction is simple or strangulated on scanning, and this will only be determined by performing abdominal surgery.
Strangulated obstructions require emergency surgery.
Strangulated obstruction-An obstruction in which a loop of the intestine has its blood supply cut off.