? Obs. [n. of action f. L. angustā-re to narrow: see -ATION.] The action of narrowing, straitening; contraction.
1651. trans. Bacon’s Life & Death, 8. There is simple Contraction and Angustiation or Straitning.
1676. Wiseman, Chirurg. Treat., I. xiv. 65 (J.). Obstruction of the Vein somewhere in its passage by some angustation upon it by part of the Tumour.
1853. in Mayne, Exp. Lex.
