Gradually investing the yolk, it became subdivided by transverse constrictions into segments, the forerunners of the rings of the body.

<Strict, string, strain> (bind): (1) district, restrict, strictly, stringent, strain, restrain, constrain; (2) stricture, constriction, boa constrictor, astringent, strait, stress.

These abrupt cries of the child, if they do not proceed from thirst, which a little water will relieve, not unfrequently occur from some unequal pressure, a fold or twist in the "roller," or some constriction round the tender body.

he whispered, with a swelling constriction in his throat.

Dr. Brocklesby writes to me, that upon the least admission of cold, there is such a constriction upon his breast, that he cannot lie down in his bed, but is obliged to sit up all night, and gets rest and sometimes sleep, only by means of laudanum and syrup of poppies; and that there are oedematous tumours on his legs and thighs.

It should afford due warmth, be of such materials as do not irritate the skin, and so made as to occasion no unnatural constriction.

she cried, a constriction of dread at her heart.

A, a medullated nerve fiber, showing the subdivision of the medullary sheath into cylindrical sections imbricated with their ends, a nerve corpuscle with an oval nucleus is seen between the neurilemma and the medullary sheath; B, a medullated nerve fiber at a node or constriction of Ranvier, the axis cylinder passes uninterruptedly from one segment into the other, but the medullary sheath is interrupted.

Two nerve fibers, showing the nodes or constrictions of Ranvier and the axis cylinder.

Great, tearing sobs racked her slight young bodybut at least she was breathing, there was no more constriction of her windpipe; Her head still ached, however, her neck felt stiff and sore, and she remained somewhat giddy and confused.

middle constriction, stricture, neck, waist, isthmus, wasp, hourglass; ridge, ghaut^, ghat^, pass; ravine &c 198. narrowing, coarctation^, angustation^, tapering; contraction &c 195.

It was one of the moments when she heard nothing but the brazen clangor of "the wedding is on the twenty-first," and until the savage constriction around her heart had relaxed she had not breath to speak.

"I have a theoryyou know all old men have theoriesthat it is a physical thing, as tangible as that osseous constriction of the cranium which holds the negro in subjection, and that if I could lay my finger on it I could raise the Indian to his ancient mastery and to a dignified place among the nations; I could change them from a vanishing people into a race of rulers, of lawgivers, of creators.

A wandering Aissaoua plucked at his sleeve and held under his nose a desert viper that gave off metallic rose glints in its slow, pained constrictions.

The watcher noticed their earnest constrictions.

For the first instant Monsignor was conscious of a slight swaying motion, which resolved itself presently into a faint sensation of constriction on his temples, but no more.

If there had been in it, not merely agitation or fear, but even unusual paleness, if there had been in those hands, one of which bore the great Papal ring, not merely trembling, but even a sign of constriction or tenseness, it might well have been, thought the priest afterwards, that the scene would have ended very differently.

The Medium described her sensations during the automatic writing as a constriction at the wrist.

The girl felt a sharp little constriction of her throat as she marked that rheumatic limp.

Then there came a terrible sounda rending sound like the tearing of dry woodand the dreadful constriction of his hold was gone.

They are variously barbed on the edges in one or more series, or furnished with constrictions at short intervals which would cause a piece readily to break off in a wound and remain there.

Cells completely adnate to each other, each apparently divided into two compartments by a transverse constriction.

The cells are so closely conjoined as to form but one triangular body, which appears as if divided into five loculaments by transverse constriction.

The upper apparent constriction however seems merely to indicate the line of flexure of the upper part of the cell upon the lower.

" Guided by those steady hands, Anne sank into a chair, and there the constriction that bound her began to pass.