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Coarctation

//ˌkəʊ.ɑːkˈteɪ.ʃən// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A congenital stricture or narrowing of a short section of the aorta. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    (biology) a narrowing or constriction of a vessel or canal; especially a congenital narrowing of the aorta wordnet
  3. 3
    A confinement to a narrow space. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "So likewise the greatest winds, if they have no coarctation, or blow not hollow, give an interior sound"

  4. 4
    tight or narrow compression wordnet
  5. 5
    A pressure; that which presses. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "the vessel will notwithstanding continue still to beat below or beyond the coarctation"

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin coarctātiō (“drawing or crowding together”, noun), from coarctō (“to press together, compress, contract, confine”) + -ātiō (“-ation”, action noun suffix); equivalent to coarctate + -ion.

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