stricture
stric·ture (strik′c̸hər)
noun
- sharp adverse criticism; censure
- a limiting or restricting condition; restriction
- Obsolete strictness
- Med. an abnormal narrowing of a passage in the body; stenosis
Etymology: ME strictture < L strictura < strictus: see strict
stricture
n.
Censure
Constriction
tightness, choking, strangulation, check, squeezing, astringency, binding, control, contraction, compression, shrinking; see also restraint 2.
Preposition: of
- law: That applies wherever we can apply it within the strictures of the law.
- society: We may have to shut ourselves off from the strictures of the society around us.
- method: There is a potential difference between knowing the administrative strictures of a project management method and knowing how actually to manage a project.
- system: Fundamentally these concerns raise questions about our responsibilities in addressing offending and offenders outside the strictures of the criminal justice system.
Possessives
- department: Of hand you can see i am always department's ethical strictures.
Converse of object
- impose: At the same time, the Maastricht criteria for joining EMU will impose severe strictures on their fiscal policy.
- develop: Approximately 30 % of patients with Barrett's esophagus will develop a peptic stricture.
- follow: The toffs claimed that they were merely following the strictures of the Bible on Sabbath observance.
- escape: David Barlow launched his company just over a year ago to escape the strictures of working for larger, corporate builders.
- apply: This stricture also applied to other protagonists of ' independence ' .
- include: Late sequelae include strictures, chronic radiation enteritis, malabsorption, or gastrointestinal obstruction.
Adjective modifier
- urethral: Urethral stricture or bladder neck contracture: occur in about 4 % .
- ureteric: I have since been diagnosed with a ureteric stricture, which is scarring to the kidney pipes.
- peptic: Most peptic strictures are however less than 1 cm in length.
- oesophageal: 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.
- ethical: Of hand you can see i am always department's ethical strictures.
- legal: But within these legal strictures, Snooper snoops for you pretty effectively.
Modifies a noun
- formation: There was, however, no significant difference in the frequency of oesophagitis or rate of stricture formation.
- dilatation: Surgery reduces but does not completely abolish the need for stricture dilatation Recent papers Richter J E. Peptic strictures of the esophagus.
- problem: The unit manages patients with catheter and stricture problems, teaches intermittent self-catheterisation techniques and offers lithotripsy treatment - the shattering of kidney stones.
Any performance is discussable from the standpoint of what it attains or what it misses.Comprehensiveness can be discussed as superficiality, intensiveness as stricture, tolerance as uncertaintyöand the poor pedestrian abilities of a fish are clearly explainable in terms of his excellence as a swimmer. A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing.
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