constrict

[US]/kənˈstrɪkt/
[UK]/kənˈstrɪkt/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

constrict
vt. compress, tighten, make something shrink.

Example Sentences

chemicals that constrict the blood vessels.

Tight shoes constrict the feet.

the fear and the reality of crime constrict many people's lives.

lives constricted by poverty.

The tight collar constricted his neck.

An accumulation of silt constricted the entrance to the harbor.

This enabled visualization of any change in the ciliary body, when the pupil was constricted by carbachol, or when the scleral overlying the ciliary body was indented.

Results The main manifestation concluded a constricted ring of the right upper limb and upper part of the head, skull defect, gastroschisis, eventration and extreme shortness of umbilical cord.

The helix has been lengthened,the scapha exposed,the normal ear reduced,the constricted ear augmented and two sides ear have become symmetry.

tube obconic, ca. 1.5 × 1.2-2 cm, strongly constricted at throat, adaxially tessellate, orifice ring ca. 1.5 mm wide;

Real-world Examples

Post-hepatic causes include right-sided Heart failure, Constrictive Pericarditis and Budd-Chiari syndrome.

Source: Osmosis - Digestion

Also, the affected pupil becomes dilated and fails to constrict in response to light.

Source: Osmosis - Nerve

It also constrict blood vessels, and incidentally the vasoconstrictor drug called vasopressin is just ADH.

Source: Osmosis - Endocrine

We narrow and constrict. We feel more sad.

Source: Harvard University's "The Science of Happiness" course.

We narrow and constrict even more.

Source: Harvard University's "The Science of Happiness" course.

Do you have a constricting pain in your chest?

Source: Doctor-Patient English Dialogue

" An old man, " Harry said, his throat still constricted.

Source: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Next, blood vessels near your skin will begin to constrict.

Source: If there is a if.

Icy water is a shock, and it makes blood vessels constrict.

Source: Science 60 Seconds - Scientific American June 2023 Collection

Car trouble can always be dangerous but this was down right " constricting" .

Source: CNN 10 Student English January 2019 Collection

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