angustation
English
Noun
angustation (usually uncountable, plural angustations)
- The act or making narrow; a straitening or contracting.
- 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgical Treatises
- the obstruction of the Vein some where in its passage by some angustation upon it by part of the Tumour
- 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgical Treatises
References
angustation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913