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    constriction


    1. the constriction, the weight of fear that otherwise would have crushed him


    2. I gasped, fighting the constriction in my throat, feeling the pain of tightening metal hoops across my chest


    3. By repeating his name, by bouncing the echo of his voice off the cold stone walls that surrounded him, he somehow found the strength to hold at bay the constriction, the weight of fear that otherwise would have crushed him


    4. 1/2 weeks ago), she has had no pain or constriction


    5. Constriction To make something dense in order to put it to use is to


    6. constriction causes the next and that one causes its own reaction until it is


    7. There was a constriction in his chest like someone sitting on it


    8. The increasing pressure created a dull aching sensation; the constriction was preventing any movement of his torso


    9. He rubbed his hands on his legs and looked away, feeling a slight constriction in his throat


    10. Basilar migraine symptoms are caused by constriction of the basilar

    11. targeted as triptans, however, and cause constriction of vessels


    12. Ergots are not as targeted as triptans, however, and cause constriction of vessels


    13. child of freedom and not of necessity or constriction


    14. nel has seven loci of constriction; they are called ‘channel-wheels’ because


    15. hell are punishments of pressure and constriction


    16. Also Nervousness and mental strain are common sources of mouth and throat constriction, somake the battle for poise and self-confidence


    17. The minute I was finished, however, I felt a constriction in my chest and coughed


    18. of danger, constriction, and limitation that are part and paree! of what girls learn in


    19. This constriction which is associated with complete contraction of members and muscles is alternating with full relaxation as well as it is joined mainly with a quickening of the heart‘s pulses to the utmost speed


    20. devised to denote all possible position and volume combinations of every variable constriction point of the human vocal tract, from vocal chords of the larynx to the pharynx, jaw, tongue and lips; and speech could be accurately represented all around the world similar to reading and writing sheet music

    21. Fear causes constriction and makes things worse


    22. The blood pressure goes up during the constriction of the arterial system


    23. Byron attempted to quell the painful constriction of his stomach, to put his mind to other things, his reason for being here for a start


    24. If, however, you have been nailed inside the enveloping constriction of self-destruction and can only seek confirmation that the non-poetic Byronic half-boy manages to destroy all he is and will be, including those connected to his self-loathing egocentric paradise, the last chapters are yours


    25. Earth diagnoses patient Earth with human cell starvation, and correlates starvation with lack of food and not money, the doctor will explain to the patient that it is monergic constriction, and the tumorous growth of corporatenisms, inhibiting the cell's acquisition of food, rather than curing it, that is both producing and exacerbating the human cells' starvation


    26. If you save him, you have, in reality, released the seeming constriction around his neck and rid him of the noose and the bond


    27. Then, if you found someone grieving and relieved him of that grief, or quenched the pain of thirst by offering him water, you will have broken the obstacle and released the constriction around his neck


    28. He pried his fingers under the noose to ease its constriction enough that he might breathe, and he carefully turned in place


    29. fear or simply the inability of constriction


    30. the direct and consensual eye will seem dilated (lack of constriction) → Shows damage to the

    31. Later there would be constriction of the throat, vomiting, redness of the face and finally a coma from which there was no exit except by way of death


    32. The beating heart of the 3-dimensional Universe comes from the constant constriction and expansion going on in the 2-dimensional Universe


    33. Calenduda is an astringent that helps to reduce the constriction of the body muscle during


    34. The constriction and expansion of relations, the normalization, the simplification, the grasping of essence and the pruning of the irrelevant to bring back a useful simulation - this is 'understanding'


    35. constriction of the coronary arteries by tobacco smoking, in the already narrowed


    36. prolonged spasm and constriction of these peripheral blood vessels


    37. nicotine has been shown to aggravate and increase the constriction already present in the


    38. I savor the lack of constriction and expand my shoulders from the drawn-forward hunch I assume when they press close


    39. Instead, she felt a constriction in her throat


    40. It was a tingling in the nerves, a constriction in the neck, an irresistible impulse to yell at the top of his voice; a thrill so like sexual excitement that he could hardly have said what the difference was

    41. ” “Not yet,” she said, as gently as the constriction of her throat would permit, “but we will “Poor baby,” whispered Melanie, her hand creeping feebly toward the child and falling short


    42. “We’ve come a long way since those days, Ashley,” she said, trying to steady her voice, trying to fight the constriction in her throat


    43. This effectively froze markets for certain kinds of securities and loans, and the resulting constriction of credit threatened to plunge the United States and the rest of the world into a serious recession or depression


    44. He passed his hand several times across his chest as if trying to relieve a constriction there, and then he spoke again


    45. A great ringing sounded in his ears and there was a suffocating constriction in his chest


    46. Cocaine induces constriction of coronary and cerebral vessels in both humans and in


    47. Somewhere in the paleness of Alice’s face, there was a sudden constriction which smoothed itself out before it was realized


    48. Hurley felt an all-too-familiar constriction in his lungs and put a handkerchief to his mouth, coughing uncontrollably into it


    49. Rapp stared down at the man, feeling a constriction in his chest that he told himself was the result of Gould’s bullet


    50. Somewhere in the paleness of Alice's face, there was a sudden constriction which smoothed itself out before it was realized


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    Synonyms for "constriction"

    constriction tightness coarctation bottleneck chokepoint obstacle impediment blockade congestion impasse squeezing contraction binding reduction strangling

    "constriction" definitions

    a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel


    tight or narrow compression


    a tight feeling in some part of the body


    the action or process of compressing