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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
constrict .
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Examples
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Apart from having a range of pharmacological actions, serotonin constricts blood vessels, sends messages between cells in the brain and within the central nervous system, regulates secretion of digestive juices, and helps to control the passage of food through the gut.
Skip the Prozac and Spring Cleaning! Get Dirty! | Impact Lab 2007
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The crowd constricts even tighter, which Alfredo didn't think possible.
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It carries epinephrine, a hormone and neurotransmitter that increases heart rate, constricts blood vessels, dilates air passages and stimulates the nervous system.
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: The Hidden Dangers of Bug Bites M.D. Glenn D. Braunstein 2011
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Bitter orange contains synephrine, a compound very similar to ephedrine that constricts blood vessels and consequently increases heart rate and blood pressure.
The Flex Diet M.D. James Beckerman 2011
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After she was diagnosed, Dr. Stewart put her on a program that included a medication that constricts the blood vessels and helps push the flow of blood toward the brain, exercise, extra fluids and salt, and more sleep.
Barbara Hannah Grufferman: Your Teenager: Depressed, Anxious... or This? Barbara Hannah Grufferman 2011
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The crowd constricts even tighter, which Alfredo didn't think possible.
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I don't want to negotiate potential romantic relationships around the constricts of my biology.
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The crowd constricts even tighter, which Alfredo didn't think possible.
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The crowd constricts even tighter, which Alfredo didn't think possible.
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When Lindsay Waters asserts that Dreiser's portrayal of Carrie Meeber allows us to "experience ourselves as vain and frail and ambitious," he's actually describing a response to the novel that constricts the literary experience, that reduces it to an opportunity for vicarious self-dramatizing.
Literary Study 2009
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