stricturestric‧ture /ˈstrɪktʃə $ -ər/ noun [countable often plural] formal 
Word Origin
religious strictures on marriage2a severe criticism
Word OriginWORD ORIGINstricture
ExamplesOrigin:
1300-1400 Late Latin strictura ‘tightening, narrowing’, from Latin strictus; ➔ STRICTEXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
Collocations- For all of its own bureaucratic strictures, the diplomatic corps had the sympathetic ears that Liang was looking for.
- Many thought Dole should at least relinquish his post of Senate majority leader to gain freedom from legislative strictures.
- The main difference is that Jerry Springer's guests have not taken Hope Steadman's strictures about yelling to heart.
- Unfortunately he applied the same stricture to himself and some of his works are rather limited.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► benign
1a rule that strictly limits what you can dostricture on/against· The pathogenesis of benign stricture formation in ulcerative colitis remains uncertain.· It is not certain whether benign strictures degenerate into malignancy or whether malignant strictures are carcinomas to start with.· The rectum was the commonest site of benign strictures, 68% in our study, as in others.· In fact, there seems to be a general predilection of benign strictures for the left side of the colon.· Of the patients with benign strictures, 32 had universal colitis and 10 had left sided involvement alone.· Figure 1 shows the proportions of benign and malignant strictures by duration of colitis.· In several large series from other countries, however, corrosive ingestion was responsible for only 1-4% of benign oesophageal strictures.· The most striking aspect of our study is the difference in presenting symptoms associated with benign v malignant strictures.
► biliary· We have reviewed our experience of exfoliative cytology in the management of patients with biliary tract strictures.· The role of endoscopic stenting for postoperative biliary strictures is still debated.· Improved methods of obtaining a tissue diagnosis are therefore becoming essential to the management of biliary tract strictures.· Self expandable biliary stents have been used for palliative treatment of malignant biliary strictures.· Does cholangiography establish the nature of a biliary stricture?· A wide variety of safe and effective methods is now available for obtaining a cytological diagnosis in patients with biliary strictures.
► malignant· Their use in malignant strictures provides immediate drainage, avoiding the early complications encountered with plastic stents.· Six patients, all with malignant strictures, had bile samples taken at both endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography and percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography.· It is not certain whether benign strictures degenerate into malignancy or whether malignant strictures are carcinomas to start with.· Sixteen percent of the patients with left sided colitis developed malignant strictures compared with 31% of the patients with universal colitis.· Figure 1 shows the proportions of benign and malignant strictures by duration of colitis.· The most striking aspect of our study is the difference in presenting symptoms associated with benign v malignant strictures.· In this study we have examined both benign and malignant colorectal strictures in ulcerative colitis and have compared their features.· How are we to separate benign from malignant strictures?
► oesophageal· Endoscopic dilatation is safe and effective for short and long term relief of dysphagia in patients with corrosive oesophageal strictures.· In several large series from other countries, however, corrosive ingestion was responsible for only 1-4% of benign oesophageal strictures.· We have reported that endoscopic dilatation is an effective and safe short term treatment for corrosive oesophageal strictures.
► peptic· This figure is comparable with the success rate in our peptic stricture patients as well as in several other reports.· Of 69 patients with more than six months follow up, 36 belonged to the corrosive group and 33 had a peptic stricture.· The dysphagia recurrence rate during follow up was higher in the corrosive than in the peptic stricture group.
NOUN► duct· Patients presenting with obstructive jaundice caused by bile duct stricture may be managed by either surgery or stenting.· A straight 10 F endoprosthesis was used in the five patients with a bile duct stricture distal to the stones.· The date of diagnosis was defined as the point when radiological evidence of intrahepatic and/or extrahepatic duct strictures were first demonstrated.· We have advocated initial endoscopic stenting for bile duct strictures after open cholecystectomy.· The overall contribution of exfoliative bile cytology to the diagnosis of bile duct strictures is shown in Figure 3.
religious strictures on marriage2a severe criticism