ppl. a. [f. STRICTURE sb.1 + -ED2.] Affected with stricture.

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1801.  Med. Jrnl., V. 224. Fæces … bearing marks of having passed some strictured part of the intestine.

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1879.  St. George’s Hosp. Rep., IX. 420. The walls of the strictured portion were much softened.

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1886.  J. M. Duncan, Dis. Wom., xxviii. (ed. 3), 251. The ileum being strictured.

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  transf.  1838.  Lytton, Alice, V. ii. Sir John Merton—very civil, very pompous, and talking, at strictured intervals, about county matters, in a measured intonation, savouring of the House-of-Commons jerk at the end of the sentence.

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