angustation

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English[edit]

Noun[edit]

angustation (usually uncountable, plural angustations)

  1. The act of making narrow; a contracting or straitening.
    • 1676, Richard Wiseman, “The First Book. A Treatise of Tumours. Chapter XIV. Of a Varix.”, in Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: [] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston [], and B[enjamin] Took, [], →OCLC, page 65:
      The cauſe of vvhich may be referred [] to the obſtruction of the Vein ſomevvhere in its paſſage by ſome anguſtation upon it by part of the Tumour; []

References[edit]

angustation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.