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Example sentences for "stricture"

Lexicographically close words:
stricte; stricter; strictest; strictly; strictness; strictures; stride; strided; strident; strides
  1. Stricture of the urethra and inflammation of the bladder are more rare in women than in men, as the result of gonorrhea.

  2. The Reverend Mr. Sabine, of New York, who had declined to hold a church burial service for the old actor, George Holland, came in for the most caustic as well as the most artistic stricture of the entire series.

  3. The fact is that when the anal structure is invaded by inflammation, there is more or less stricture of the canal and of the orifice.

  4. As she spoke, she felt a sudden stricture at her heart over those commonplace words.

  5. There was a sudden stricture at her heart over the flash of pleasure on her son's face.

  6. What was making that strange stricture around her heart as though a cold hand had clutched her and was holding on?

  7. The whole purpose of the drama was a stricture on class prejudices and an enunciation of the innate truth that underlies all forms of creeds.

  8. We fear that many in our day fail to see the greatness of the achievement while they stricture the manner of achieving it.

  9. Promote the secretions and excretions in the manner already referred to under the head of Puerperal Fever; this will relieve the stricture of the surface.

  10. A simple aperient of linseed oil may be given in cases of stricture or intussusception of the bowels.

  11. Benham mentions the discharge of a fetus by the rectum; there was a stricture of the rectum associated with syphilitic patches, necessitating the performance of colotomy.

  12. The Transactions of the South Carolina Medical Association contain an account of a negro of sixty who had urethral stricture from gonorrhea and who had been treated for fifteen years by caustics.

  13. The same author speaks of a gentleman under treatment for stricture who could not eat figs without experiencing the most unpleasant formication of the palate and fauces.

  14. Staples records a case of pregnancy and parturition with congenital stricture of the vagina.

  15. He died on the next day, and the diagnosis was verified at the necropsy, the opening in the diaphragm causing stricture of the bowel.

  16. Stricture of the ureter is also a very rare occurrence except as a result of compression of abdominal or pelvic new growths.

  17. Cripps mentions a man of forty-two with stricture of the rectum, who suffered complete intestinal obstruction for two months, during which time he vomited only once or twice.

  18. From the collar stricture there arise three divergent bristle-shaped spines half as long as the thorax.

  19. Shell shaped like the "corpora quadrigemina cerebralia," with two deep crossed strictures, a coronal transverse stricture and a sagittal sternal stricture.

  20. Shell nearly ovate, strongly compressed, smooth, one and a half times as long as broad, with deep sagittal stricture in the basal half.

  21. Three beams outside the thorax, arising freely from the collar stricture (no cephalic hole), 546.

  22. The three internal cortinar bars of the collar stricture are present; when they become lost this species passes over into Bathropyramis quadrata (Pl.

  23. Shell subspherical, smooth, with slight sagittal stricture and irregular polygonal pores; on each side of the stricture two pairs of larger pores.

  24. Shell nut-shaped, smooth, with deep sagittal stricture and irregular polygonal pores; on each side of the stricture two pairs of larger square annular pores.

  25. Shell subspherical, with slight sagittal stricture and few small pores; on each side of the stricture four larger, square, annular pores.

  26. When a tight stricture exists, the passage anteriorly is never fully distended, and becomes permanently contracted in consequence; whilst more or less dilatation is produced behind the tight part, wherever that may be.

  27. By a probe-pointed bistoury, guided on the finger, it was notched pretty deeply at many points—a proceeding which I have frequently followed with advantage in simple stricture of the rectum.

  28. On separating the anterior and posterior tumours, the stricture is readily exposed, though previously effectually concealed.

  29. The stricture is felt for with the forefinger of the left hand, and into it either the point of the finger or the nail is gently insinuated.

  30. Rather than puncture the bladder, the stricture should be cut down upon, and an opening made into the dilated part of the urethra behind the obstruction.

  31. When the stricture is very tight, the patient cachectic and irregular in his mode of life, and the case injudiciously or inertly treated, sloughing takes place rapidly, or phagedenic ulceration occurs anterior to the stricture.

  32. Incision of stricture may be required in retention of urine, scarcely otherwise.

  33. He has had a feeling of distention about the lower part of the bowels, and voids his urine with some difficulty; perhaps he suspects stricture of the urethra as the cause.

  34. The more continuous states which cause it are--stricture of the urethra, enlargement of the prostate gland, and calculus in the bladder.

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

  36. But the glance added little to what Faith knew already about the strangers, and she went on her way feeling as if a stricture had been bound tight round her heart.

  37. Irritants cause death by inducing collapse or convulsions, or by exciting severe inflammation; or, after a variable interval, by leading to stricture of the oesophagus.

  38. When recovery from the immediate effects of the poison has taken place, death has subsequently ensued from stricture of the oesophagus, producing starvation.

  39. Where recovery takes place from their immediate effects there is always fear of death resulting at the end of one or two years from stricture of the oesophagus, and even at an earlier period, unless proper treatment is adopted.

  40. He had evidently seen cases improve this way, and therefore must have had experience with functional stricture of the oesophagus.

  41. Avenzoar suggested feeding per rectum in cases of stricture of the oesophagus, but he also treated the oesophageal stricture directly.

  42. Perhaps Melanchthon, who probably would otherwise have dissimulated, felt constrained to add this stricture on account of the solemn demand of the Elector that no one should hide any dissent of his, with the intention of publishing it later.

  43. At all events, the Tract amounts to a retraction of his stricture on Luther's view of the Papacy.

  44. A stricture of the cervical canal, occasioned by the womb being flexed, will interfere with the egress of the menstrual flow, and this also may give rise to inflammation.

  45. Other obstructions may be due to a stricture of the vagina or some deformity of the hymen; a very slight surgical operation will permanently relieve both of these hindrances.

  46. He smiled, whether he would or not, but protested this was the severest stricture upon his committee that had ever yet been uttered.

  47. He, too, was choked until consciousness almost left him; then the stricture was relaxed while they questioned him.

  48. After the stricture and soreness of the lungs are removed, and the general febrile action is suppressed, it is desirable to give a general tonic treatment.

  49. If there be hoarseness, or cough, or stricture of lungs, or soreness of chest, place N.

  50. Stricture and praise are, it will perhaps be said, equally impertinent to a fame so well established.

  51. Even so severe a stricture must not be lost to sight by the historian desirous of tracing a psychological picture of the author’s feelings at the time he was engaged on the translation.

  52. This stricture tells, however, as much against many a Catholic writer of that day.

  53. In Luther’s own writings we repeatedly hear the same stricture voiced: “If sin is forgiven me gratuitously by God’s Mercy and is blotted out in baptism, then there is nothing for me to do.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stricture" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abbreviation; anathema; animadversion; arraignment; arrest; aspersion; astringency; backbiting; blame; blockade; calumny; carping; cavil; censure; cervix; check; circumscription; closure; compression; concentration; condemnation; condensation; consolidation; constriction; contraction; contumely; cramp; criticism; curtailment; damnation; decrease; delay; denunciation; detention; disparagement; exception; fixation; flak; hampering; hit; holdup; hourglass; impediment; imputation; indictment; inhibition; interference; interruption; isthmus; knitting; knock; let; limitation; nagging; narrowing; neck; niggling; nit; obloquy; obstruction; occlusion; opposition; pestering; puckering; quibble; quibbling; rap; reduction; reflection; reprehension; repression; resistance; restraint; restriction; retardation; setback; slam; slur; snag; solidification; squeeze; stint; stranglehold; strangulation; strict; stricture; suppression; swipe; systole; taper; detention; disparagement; exception; fixation; flak; hampering; hit; holdup; hourglass; impediment; imputation; indictment; inhibition; interference; interruption; isthmus; knitting; knock; let; limitation; nagging; narrowing; neck; niggling; nit; obloquy; obstruction; occlusion; opposition; pestering; puckering; quibble; quibbling; rap; reduction; reflection; reprehension; repression; resistance; restraint; restriction; retardation; setback; slam; slur; snag; solidification; squeeze; stint; stranglehold; strangulation; strict; stricture; suppression; swipe; systole; taper