Stricture

Stricture
An abnormal narrowing of a body passage, especially a tube or a canal. The stricture may be due, for example, to scar tissue or to a tumor. Stricture refers to both the process of narrowing and the narrowed part itself. A stricture is also anything that closely restrains or limits. Shakespeare used "stricture" in the sense of strictness, as in "A man of stricture and firm abstinence."
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A circumscribed narrowing or stenosis of a hollow structure, usually consisting of cicatricial contracture or deposition of abnormal tissue. [L. strictura, fr. stringo, pp. strictus, to draw tight, bind]
- anastomotic s. narrowing, usually by scarring, of an anastomotic suture line.
- anular s. a ringlike constriction encircling the wall of a canal.
- bridle s. narrowing of a canal by a band of tissue stretching across part of its lumen.
- contractile s. SYN: recurrent s..
- functional s. SYN: spasmodic s..
- organic s. a s. due to the presence of cicatricial or other new tissue, not spasmodic. SYN: permanent s..
- permanent s. SYN: organic s..
- recurrent s. a s. due to the presence of contractile tissue which may be dilated but soon returns. SYN: contractile s..
- spasmodic s. a s. due to localized spasm of muscular fibers in the wall of the canal. SYN: functional s., temporary s..
- temporary s. SYN: spasmodic s..
- urethral s. a stenosing lesion of the urethra, due usually to inflammation or to iatrogenic instrumentation and resulting in reduction of urethral caliber which may be focal or may involve virtually the entire length of the urethra.

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stric·ture 'strik-chər n an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage (as from inflammation, cancer, or the formation of scar tissue) <esophageal \stricture> also the narrowed part

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n.
a narrowing of any tubular structure in the body, such as the oesophagus (gullet), bowel, ureter, or urethra. A stricture may result from inflammation, muscular spasm, growth of a tumour within the affected part, or from pressure on it by neighbouring organs. For example, a urethral stricture is a fibrous narrowing of the urethra, usually resulting from injury or inflammation. The patient has increasing difficulty in passing urine and may develop retention. The site and length of the stricture is assessed by urethrography and urethroscopy, and treatment is by periodic dilatation of the urethra using sound, urethrotomy, or urethroplasty. Strictures in the alimentary canal are dilated by balloon or stricturoplasty.

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stric·ture (strikґchər) [L. strictura] stenosis.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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