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Definition of Strictures
1. stricture [n] - See also: stricture
Lexicographical Neighbors of Strictures
Literary usage of Strictures
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Venereal Disease by John Hunter, Ph. Ricord, Freeman Josiah Bumstead (1859)
"strictures of the urethra are perhaps less rare in women than is supposed. ...
Of the Cure of strictures in Women. The cure of strictures in the urethra of ..."
2. Biblical Repertory by Charles Hodge, Peter Walker (1829)
"We insert the preceding strictures, notwithstanding their length and severity,
... We have read these strictures with the attention due to the subject, ..."
3. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1889)
"Eight cases were single strictures, and four had multiple strictures. ...
Electrolysis will give improvement to rectal strictures when other means have ..."
4. A Treatise on the Venereal Disease by John Hunter, Everard Home (1810)
"OF strictures IN WOMEN. OBSTRUCTIONS to the water in women, I believe, generally
arise from stricture, although not always; for I have known them produced ..."
5. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1756)
"... strictures, is treated as' a wav« ' that will certainly fall at our feet' (fays a
... strictures, riles to a degree of froth and foam, that, perhaps, ..."
6. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1826)
"As we have not had an opportunity of examining Mr Livingston's Code, so far as
it is now published, nor of hearing his answer to the strictures contained in ..."
7. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"In 1 case there was simultaneously an ileocecal descending and an ascending
invagination of the large intestine. The Treatment of Inflammatory strictures of ..."
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