Definition of constrict

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Constrict (v. t.) To draw together; to render narrower or smaller; to bind; to cramp; to contract or cause to shrink.

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Boa Constrictor :: Boa constrictor () A large and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix..
Strangulated :: Strangulated (a.) Having the circulation stopped by compression; attended with arrest or obstruction of circulation, caused by constriction or compression; as, a strangulated hernia..
Constrict :: Constrict (v. t.) To draw together; to render narrower or smaller; to bind; to cramp; to contract or cause to shrink.
Arctation :: Arctation (n.) Constriction or contraction of some natural passage, as in constipation from inflammation..
Constricted :: Constricted (imp. & p. p.) of Constric.
Incarceration :: Incarceration (n.) A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation..
Astringe :: Astringe (v. t.) To bind fast; to constrict; to contract; to cause parts to draw together; to compress.
Constriction :: Constriction (n.) The act of constricting by means of some inherent power or by movement or change in the thing itself, as distinguished from compression..
Strictly :: Striction (n.) The act of constricting, or the state of being constricted..
Astrict :: Astrict (v. t.) To bind up; to confine; to constrict; to contract.
Boa :: Boa (n.) A long, round fur tippet; -- so called from its resemblance in shape to the boa constrictor..
Choke :: Choke (n.) A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc..
Paraphimosis :: Paraphimosis (n.) A condition in which the prepuce, after being retracted behind the glans penis, is constricted there, and can not be brought forward into place again..
Constrictor :: Constrictor (n.) A muscle which contracts or closes an orifice, or which compresses an organ; a sphincter..
Constrictor :: Constrictor (n.) A serpent that kills its prey by inclosing and crushing it with its folds; as, the boa constrictor..
Strangulation :: Strangulated (a.) Contracted at irregular intervals, if tied with a ligature; constricted..
Coarctate :: Coarctate (a.) Pressed together; closely connected; -- applied to insects having the abdomen separated from the thorax only by a constriction.
Constrictor :: Constrictor (n.) That which constricts, draws together, or contracts..
Boa :: Boa (n.) A genus of large American serpents, including the boa constrictor, the emperor boa of Mexico (B. imperator), and the chevalier boa of Peru (B. eques)..
Thlipsis :: Thlipsis (n.) Compression, especially constriction of vessels by an external cause..
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