stricture
stricture is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A stroke; a glance; a touch. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.
- 2.A touch of adverse criticism; censure. [I have] given myself the liberty of these strictures by way of reflection on all and every passage. Hammond.
- 3.(Med.) A localized morbid contraction of any passage of the body. Cf. Organic stricture, and Spasmodic stricture, under Organic, and Spasmodic. Arbuthnot.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- anatomy
- and
- angustation
- bone
- breadth
- closeness
- coarctation
- constriction
- contraction
- deposition
- emaciation
- exiguity
- exility
- filament
- ghat
- ghaut
- hourglass
- isthmus
- lantern
- line
- little
- macilency
- marcor
- mere
- middle
- narrowing
- narrowness
- neck
- paper
- pass
- ravine
- ridge
- shadow
- shaving
- skeleton
- skin
- slip
- spindleshanks
- streak
- strip
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is stricture.
- What is a stroke; a glance; a touch. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale called?
- What is a touch of adverse criticism; censure. [I have] given myself the liberty of these strictures by way of reflection on all and every passage. Hammond called?
- What is a localized morbid contraction of any passage of the body. Cf. Organic stricture, and Spasmodic stricture, under Organic, and Spasmodic. Arbuthnot called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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