strangulated
English
Adjective
strangulated (not comparable)
- (medicine) Having the circulation stopped by compression; attended with arrest or obstruction of circulation, caused by constriction or compression.
- a strangulated hernia
- Strangled; affected by strangulation.
- 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 8:
- Robert at once performed the strangulated antics of one arising.
- (botany) Contracted at irregular intervals, if tied with a ligature; constricted.
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