COARCTATION

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

Confinement to a narrow space. [Obs.] Bacon.

2.
n.

Pressure; that which presses. [Obs.] Ray.

3.
n.

A stricture or narrowing, as of a canal, cavity, or orifice.


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