From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Stricture \Stric"ture\, noun [L. strictura a contraction, from stringere, strictum, to draw tight: cf. F. stricture. See {Strict}.]
1. Strictness. [Obs.]
A man of stricture and firm abstinence. --Shak.
2. A stroke; a glance; a touch. [Obs.] --Sir M. Hale.
3. A touch of adverse criticism; censure.
[I have] given myself the liberty of these strictures by way of reflection on all and every passage. --Hammond.
4. (Med.) A localized morbid contraction of any passage of the body. Cf. {Organic stricture}, and {Spasmodic stricture}, under {Organic}, and {Spasmodic}. --Arbuthnot.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: abnormal narrowing of a bodily canal or passageway [syn: {stenosis}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
146 Moby Thesaurus words for "stricture": abbreviation, adverse criticism, anathema, animadversion, arraignment, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, aspersion, astriction, astringency, bad notices, bad press, blame, blockage, blocking, bottleneck, captiousness, carping, castigation, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, censure, cervix, check, circumscription, clogging, closing up, closure, coarctation, compactedness, compaction, compression, compressure, concentration, condemnation, condensation, consolidation, constraint, constriction, constringency, contraction, contracture, cramp, criticism, curtailment, damnation, decrease, decrial, delay, denouncement, denunciation, detainment, detention, deterrent, diminuendo, exception, excoriation, faultfinding, fixation, flak, flaying, foot-dragging, fulmination, fustigation, hairsplitting, hampering, hindering, hindrance, hit, holdback, holdup, home thrust, hostile criticism, hourglass, hourglass figure, hypercriticalness, hypercriticism, impeachment, impediment, imputation, indictment, inhibition, interdiction, interference, interruption, isthmus, knitting, knock, let, nagging, narrow place, narrowing, neck, negativism, niggle, niggling, nit, nit-picking, nuisance value, obloquy, obstruction, obstructionism, occlusion, opposition, overcriticalness, pestering, pettifogging, pillorying, priggishness, puckering, pursing, quibble, quibbling, rap, reduction, reflection, reprehension, repression, reproachfulness, reprobation, resistance, restraint, restriction, retardation, retardment, setback, shortening, skinning alive, slam, solidification, squeeze, stranglehold, stranglement, strangulation, striction, suppression, swipe, systole, taking exception, taper, tapering, trichoschistism, wasp waist, wrinkling
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