stricture
stricture
[ˈstrɪktʃə]
noun
strictured
adjective
语源
[ˈstrɪktʃə]
noun
- a restriction on a person or activity
限制，束缚，约束
the strictures imposed by the British Board of Film Censors.
由英国电影审查委员会施加的限制。 - a sternly critical or censorious remark or instruction
指责，非难；苛评
his strictures on their lack of civic virtue.
他对他们缺乏公民道德的指责。 - (Medicine)abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body
(医)（人体导管异常的）狭窄
a colonic stricture.
结肠狭窄。
[mass noun]jaundice caused by bile duct stricture.
胆管狭窄导致的黄疸。
strictured
adjective
语源
- late Middle English (in sense 3): from Latin strictura, from stringere 'draw tight' (see strict). Another sense of the Latin verb, 'touch lightly', gave rise to sense 2 via an earlier meaning 'incidental remark'
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