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Definition of Constrictive
1. Adjective. (of circumstances) tending to constrict freedom.
2. Adjective. Restricting the scope or freedom of action.
Definition of Constrictive
1. a. Serving or tending to bind or constrict.
Definition of Constrictive
1. Adjective. That constricts, or is accompanied by constriction ¹
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Definition of Constrictive
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Constrictive
Literary usage of Constrictive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Primer of Materia Medica for Practitioners of Homoeopathy by Timothy Field Allen (1891)
"General sore throat with a constrictive sensation: frequent efforts to swallow.
(Occasionally indicated in diphtheria with a low type of delirium, ..."
2. Characteristics of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica by Melford Eugene Douglass (1900)
"Constrictive pain around the neck, as from tight string. Extremities.—Pains in
the right shoulder, as from a blow; also in right knee. Skin. ..."
3. A Text-book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1885)
"We might apeak of constrictive impulses as passing from the central nervous system
to the various vascular areas, to such an extent as to constitute normal ..."
4. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1854)
"possible combination of these changes. In the ordinary cases of mitral murmur we
cannot say whether the murmur is " constrictive " or " regurgitant ..."
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