Usually means: Narrowing, limitation, or critical remark.
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  1. stricture: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. stricture: Merriam-Webster
  3. stricture: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. stricture: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. stricture: Collins English Dictionary
  6. stricture: Vocabulary.com
  7. Stricture, stricture: Wordnik
  8. stricture: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. stricture: Wiktionary
  10. stricture: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. stricture: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. stricture: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. stricture: Dictionary.com
  14. stricture: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Stricture (medicine), Stricture: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Stricture: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. stricture: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. stricture: Rhymezone
  19. Stricture: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. stricture: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. stricture: FreeDictionary.org
  22. stricture: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. stricture: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. stricture: Legal dictionary

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  1. stricture: Encyclopedia

Medicine (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. stricture: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Stricture: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Digestive Diseases Dictionary (No longer online)
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  7. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  8. stricture: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
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  10. Stricture, Stricture: The Atlas of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
  11. stricture: Medical dictionary
  12. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)
  13. Stricture: Drug Medical Dictionary
  14. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

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  1. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (usually in the plural) A rule restricting behaviour or action.
noun:  A general state of restrictiveness on behavior, action, or ideology.
noun:  A sternly critical remark or review.
noun:  (medicine) Abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body.
noun:  (obsolete) Strictness.
noun:  (obsolete) A stroke; a glance; a touch.
noun:  (linguistics) The degree of contact, in consonants.

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