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onfine; to shut up or inclose; to hem in. Incarcerated hernia (Med.), hernia in which the constriction can not be easily reduced.

A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.

A constrictor of machines and engines; one versed in the principles of machines.

Joined or constricted, at regular intervals, so as to resemble a string of beads; as, a moniliform root; a moniliform antenna. See Illust. of Antenna.

the piece between the chase and the swell of the muzzle. -- Neck of a tooth (Anat.), the constriction between the root and the crown. -- Neck or nothing (Fig.), at all risks. -- Neck verse. (a) The verse formerly read to entitle a party to the benefit of clergy, said to be the first verse of the fifty-first Psalm, "…

The act of occluding, or the state of being occluded. Constriction and occlusion of the orifice. Howell.

A condition in which the prepuce, after being retracted behind the glans penis, is constricted there, and can not be brought forward into place again.

Constipation; also, constriction of the vessels or ducts.

ion stopped by compression; attended with arrest or obstruction of circulation, caused by constriction or compression; as, a strangulated hernia.

Inordinate compression or constriction of a tube or part, as of the throat; especially, such as causes a suspension of breathing, of the passage of contents, or of the circulation, as in cases of hernia.

The act of constricting, or the state of being constricted. Line of striction (Geom.), the line on a skew surface that cuts each generator in that point of it that is nearest to the succeeding generator.

Compression, especially constriction of vessels by an external cause.

t impulses are changed into efferent, -- vasomotor impulses leading either to dilation or constriction of the blood vessels.