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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Isthmus \Isth"mus\ (?; 277), noun; pl. {Isthmuses}. [L. isthmus, Gr. 'isqmo's a neck, a neck of land between two seas, an isthmus, especially the Isthmus of Corinth; prob. from the root of 'ie'nai to go; cf. Icel. ei[eth] isthmus. See {Issue}.] (Geog.) A neck or narrow slip of land by which two continents are connected, or by which a peninsula is united to the mainland; as, the Isthmus of Panama; the Isthmus of Suez, etc.
{Isthmus of the fauces}. (Anat.) See {Fauces}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
isthmus
noun
1: a relatively narrow strip of land (with water on both sides) connecting two larger land areas
2: a narrow band of tissue connecting two larger parts of an anatomical structure [also: {isthmi} (pl)]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
47 Moby Thesaurus words for "isthmus": abbreviation, astriction, astringency, bottleneck, canal, cervix, channel, circumscription, coarctation, compactedness, compaction, compression, compressure, concentration, condensation, consolidation, constriction, constringency, contraction, contracture, curtailment, decrease, defile, diminuendo, hourglass, hourglass figure, knitting, narrow, narrow place, narrowing, narrows, neck, pass, puckering, pursing, reduction, shortening, solidification, strait, stranglement, strangulation, striction, stricture, systole, throat, wasp waist, wrinkling
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