Word Finder - stricture

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(usually in plural) a rule restricting behaviour or action

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For them, parity is less an ultimate goal than a transitory and permissive springboard for testing Western resolve and pursuing whatever additional accretions of strategic power the strictures of SALT and American tolerance will allow.

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A general state of restrictiveness on behavior, action, or ideology

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I just couldn't take the stricture of that place a single day more.

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A sternly critical remark or review

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Abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body

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Strictness

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A stroke; a glance; a touch

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The degree of contact, in consonants

Even where they undergo healing they may cause such a stricture of the calibre of the intestinal canal as to give rise to the symptoms of obstruction which ultimately prove fatal.

Approximately 30% of patients with Barrett 's esophagus will develop a peptic stricture.

This stricture also applied to other protagonists of ' independence '.

For this reason it is used to remove corneal opacities, deafness due to thickening of the membrane, stricture of the oesophagus and hypertrophy of the pylorus, it has also been successful in the treatment of adhesive parametritis.

Should the patient survive the first twenty-four hours death generally results later from stricture of the oesophagus or intestine, from destruction of the glands of the stomach or from exhaustion.

There was, however, no significant difference in the frequency of oesophagitis or rate of stricture formation.

Surgery reduces but does not completely abolish the need for stricture dilatation Recent papers Richter J E. Peptic strictures of the esophagus.

The stricture of the esophagus is caused by a thickening of the lining of the esophagus in response to acids from the stomach.

About 10 to 35 percent of all survivors eventually develop a stricture, or narrowing, of the intestine that occurs with healing.

As a surgeon, Simon's work came second to his interest in sanitary science, but he claimed priority over Cock in the operation of perineal puncture of the urethra in cases of retention from stricture.

A barium follow-through examination may show a terminal ileal or colonic stricture.

In patients with gastroesophageal reflux and heartburn, antireflux regimen must be used to prevent complications of reflux esophagitis and stricture formation.

Approximately 30% of patients with Barrett's esophagus will develop a peptic stricture.

I have since been diagnosed with a ureteric stricture, which is scarring to the kidney pipes.

While awaiting the ESR result she was treated with analgesics rather than anti-inflammatory drugs because of a history of hiatus hernia and oesophageal stricture.

Surgery reduces but does not completely abolish the need for stricture dilatation Recent papers Richter J E. Peptic stricture dilatation Recent papers Richter J E. Peptic strictures of the esophagus.

Stricture or stenosis of a ureter prevents urine from flowing freely.

In 1810 he published a series of Letters concerning the Diseases of the Urethra, in which he treated of stricture from an anatomical and pathological point of view.

If, however, one of the ureters has a dead end, a stricture or stenosis (narrowing), or a leaky ureterovesical valve (between the ureter and bladder), infection is the likely result.