stricture
constricción
definition
noun
religious strictures on everyday life
a restriction on a person or activity.
his strictures on their lack of civic virtue
a sternly critical or censorious remark or instruction.
translation of 'stricture'
noun
constricción,
censura,
crítica
example
a colonic 'stricture'
A clear distinction between the dysphagia of an inflammatory 'stricture' and that of carcinoma is impossible on clinical grounds alone.
jaundice caused by bile duct 'stricture'
a colonic 'stricture'
At the time of referral, she was awaiting surgery for a colonic 'stricture' resulting from a recurrence of carcinoma of the colon.
However, I am also convinced that my 'stricture' about the hermeneutic circle is and must be self-referential.
Once again, my criticism of U.S. hegemony had to be tempered by a 'stricture' on Japan's own insular nationalism.
jaundice caused by bile duct 'stricture'
Both sides in this political ‘debate’ between conservatism and liberalism stress personal freedom for themselves while piously imposing 'strictures' on others.
The high frequency of rectal bleeding may be because of mucosal trauma caused by scybalous stool traversing the 'strictured' segment.
The element of political satire in his recent work, although radical and, in the broadest sense, ‘leftish’, eschews the 'strictures' of the language police.
Muslims use much less silver because of 'strictures' imposed by the Koran, which seems odd considering the lunar symbolism inherent in Islam.
Significantly, ministers are to impose new 'strictures' on police and social workers.
On stem-cell research, he stated that the 'strictures' he imposed still gave scientists more than sixty usable lines of such cells, when they had only one.
Teachers often complain that it imposes too many 'strictures' on them that force them to teach too much too fast.
In suburbs, one could make new friendships and associations without worrying about old social conventions and 'strictures' and separations.
Those same strong students (one hopes) will ultimately supercede the 'strictures' imposed in the educational studio, but at what cost?
The point is that Labour politicians see no reason to impose upon themselves the 'strictures' against offensive language they demand be observed by others.
By 1750 writers had begun to question the religious 'strictures' laid down by men such as Samuel Moody.
You are released from restrictions and 'strictures' that may have been binding for some time.
Composers such as Webern leapt on the concept and ran with it, going so far as to impose these same 'strictures' on all aspects of music including rhythm.
This innovative and elegant procedure involved the ingenious refashioning of the stomach to replace the 'strictured' oesophagus, and also to recreate the cardiac sphincter so as to maintain its function and continence.
Post inflammatory 'strictures' most commonly develop in the colon, and are best demonstrated by barium enema.
It must be rooted in the most difficult 'strictures' of the scriptures of the major religions and the deepest springs of the human heart.
In these 23 patients, the main pancreatic duct was considered to be 'strictured' or obliterated to various degrees due to the ampullary carcinoma.
His past history was significant for chronic alcoholic pancreatitis with pancreatic duct 'strictures' and stones which had been treated with dilation and stone extraction 4 years ago.
In all four gospel traditions, Jesus consistently makes the first move to reach out to the marginalized, often transgressing contemporary social mores and religious 'strictures' in the process.
Such 'strictures' may seem ironic coming from a historian whom some critics have seen as letting the landlords off lightly when it came to the abuse of their social and economic power.
All patients should be evaluated for esophageal rings and 'strictures' after the foreign body is removed.
But the most frightening thing about the entire affair is that public figures like congressmen inserted themselves into the case in order to uphold religious 'strictures' .
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