Category:Stricture

Stricture Stric"ture, n. Etym: [l. strictura a contraction, from stringere, Strictum, to draw tight: cf. F. stricture. See strict.]

1. Strictness. [obs.] A man of stricture and firm abstinence. Shak.

2. A stroke; a glance; a touch. [obs.] Sir m. Hale.

3. A touch of adverse criticism; censure. [i have] given myself the liberty of these strictures by way of Reflection on all and every passage. Hammond.

4. (med.)

Defn: a localized morbid contraction of any passage of the body. Cf. Organic stricture, and spasmodic stricture, under organic, and Spasmodic. Arbuthnot.