Meanings
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noun
a tight feeling in some part of the body
They felt a constriction in their chest and could not breathe.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
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noun
· a tight feeling in some...
tightness
Word family
Forms
constrictions
Derived forms
arterioconstrictionbronchoconstrictionhyperconstrictionnanoconstrictionpreconstrictionpupilloconstrictionreconstrictionvasoconstriction
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin constrictio, constrictionis, from Latin constringo.
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