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stricture

/strik-cher/US // ˈstrɪk tʃər //UK // (ˈstrɪktʃə) //

狭窄,狭窄处,狭缝,狭窄地带

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a remark or comment, especially an adverse criticism: The reviewer made several strictures upon the author's style.
    • : an abnormal contraction of any passage or duct of the body.
    • : Phonetics. a constriction of airflow in the vocal tract in the production of speech.
    • : a restriction.
    • : Archaic. the act of enclosing or binding tightly.
    • : Obsolete. strictness.

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Examples

  • When they play with technical strictures, they also feel the music suffers.

  • So she hasn’t spoken about her conservatorship or about the strictures under which she is living for 13 years.

  • It also gives individual viewers — rather than Disney, with its many corporate obligations and strictures on what is and isn’t family-friendly — the agency to determine who we cheer for and identify with, and what version of the narrative we accept.

  • As the days turn into weeks turn into months, the strictures become harder to tolerate.

  • Assisted living facilities emerged as a third way, rejecting the clinical strictures of a medical institution in favor of a more informal, dormlike setting.

  • In both cases, one of the frequent complications can be the stricture of the urethra.

  • The principal stricture passed on the virtuoso was that he played too softly, or, rather, too delicately.

  • The common sequence is stricture of the gullet, combined with feeble digestion, and in a few instances stricture of the pylorus.

  • The gullet is most affected at its lower part, and it is this part which is mostly subject to stricture.

  • The first recorded operation for external urethrotomy for the relief of stricture is mentioned in Wiseman's writings.

  • Rec′toscope, a speculum for rectal examination; Rectot′omy, the operation for dividing a rectal stricture.