Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Narrowness or constriction in any sense; in pathology, unnatural contraction of any natural opening, as of the anus; constipation from inflammation. Also called
arctitude .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Constriction or contraction of some natural passage, as in constipation from inflammation.
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- noun medicine
constriction orcontraction of a naturalpassage , as inconstipation frominflammation
Etymologies
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Latin arctus shut in, narrow, past participle of arcere to shut in: compare French arctation.
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