(v. t.) To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.
(v. t.) To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.
(v. t.) To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle.
(v. t.) To affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling.
(v. t.) To make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
(v. i.) To have the windpipe stopped; to have a spasm of the throat, caused by stoppage or irritation of the windpipe; to be strangled.
(v. i.) To be checked, as if by choking; to stick.
(n.) A stoppage or irritation of the windpipe, producing the feeling of strangulation.
(n.) The tied end of a cartridge.
(n.) A constriction in the bore of a shotgun, case of a rocket, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sometimes the way the MP [military policeman] holds the head chokes me, and with all the nerves in the nose the tube passing the nose is like torture,” Dhiab said in a legal filing.
(2) In a Europe (including Britain) where austerity has become the economic dogma of the elite in spite of massive evidence that it is choking growth and worsening the very sickness it claims to heal, there are plenty of rational, sensible arguments for taking to the streets.
(3) In an emergency, the devices use multiple mechanisms – including clamps and shears – to try to choke off the oil flowing up from a pipe and disconnect the rig from the well.
(4) Fourteen patients who were able to vocalize during the choking episode had probably suffered from esophageal impaction.
(5) With unemployment at a record as the debt-choked country endures a fifth consecutive year of recession, nearly 44% of the 907,953 out of work are between 15 and 24.
(6) In one experiment serial bronchial obstructions were made to determine whether flow-limiting sites (choke points, CP) would occur in series.
(7) Since she was 25-year-old, she had had insomnia which accompanied by choked feelings, palpitations, clumsiness of hands and anxiety.
(8) Failure to complete feeds, dysphagia, vomiting, coughing, choking and recurrent respiratory symptoms were also significantly more common in this group than in the primary anastomosis group (labeled as group A) even in the absence of stricture.
(9) If the abnormal sensation, such as a lump or choking, in the throat was mainly caused by inflammatory changes in the palatine tonsils or their surrounding tissues and conveyed via vagal nerve branches distributing there, the sensation might be reduced by topically injected Impletol (Procaine and caffeine in saline solution), i.e.
(10) From 2008 to 2011, as the economy worsened and a wave of new restrictions choked abortion access around the country, online queries about self-induced abortion almost doubled , according to Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, an economist who analyzes Google searches.
(11) Psychiatric patients have an increased risk for choking compared with the general population because of risk factors such as medication side effects and food gorging.
(12) It was evidenced that, from point of view of mean flow, the airflow flowed at a rate of Vmax through the choke point during the second phase.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Yemen government ground forces and Saudi-led air strikes attack Houthi militias The blockade – which is also being enforced in the air and on land – has choked a fragile economy already staggering under the impact of a six-month civil conflict pitting Yemeni forces loyal to the President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, now exiled in Riyadh, against Houthi rebels allied to his predecessor and rival, Ali Abdullah Saleh.
(14) A girl aged 13 years developed an acute unilateral Exophthalmos on the right side with disturbances of eye-motion, choked disc and nearly complete amaurosis within 3 days after onset.
(15) While some predicted their team would once again choke at the final hurdle, the chancellor had faith the “system” would be fully endorsed.
(16) The government further enraged Mubarak's opponents when it tried to cover up the killing by alleging he choked on a bag of drugs.
(17) The symptoms included inspiratory stridor, choking during eating, and aspiration.
(18) We examined the effects of the inhaled parasympatholytic agent atropine and the sympathomimetic agent salbutamol on partitioned frictional pressure (Pfr) losses to the site of flow limitation (choke point, CP) in dogs to see how changes brought about by these agents would affect maximum expiratory flow (Vmax) and response to breathing 80% He-20% O2 (delta Vmax) in terms of wave-speed theory of flow limitation.
(19) "Tax rises and spending cuts that go too far and too fast have crushed confidence and choked off the British recovery well before the eurozone crisis of recent months."
(20) 62: 2013-2025, 1987), we recently predicted that 1) axially arranged choke points can exist simultaneously during forced expiration with sufficient effort, and 2) overall maximal expiratory flow may be relatively insensitive to nonuniform airways obstruction because of flow interdependence between parallel upstream branches.
Strangulation
Definition:
(n.) The act of strangling, or the state of being strangled.
(n.) Inordinate compression or constriction of a tube or part, as of the throat; especially, such as causes a suspension of breathing, of the passage of contents, or of the circulation, as in cases of hernia.
Example Sentences:
(1) The hernia ring, which was located medially to the suture line of previous herniorraphy, had strangulated the herniated bladder.
(2) The previous belief of strangulation of the malrotated kidney leading to hematuria is not confirmed.
(3) A radical approach to the infected abdominal wall, incorporating wide en-bloc excision of skin, subcutaneous tissue, muscle, and strangulated intestine, facilitates successful fascial and skin closure in a noninfected field in the morbidly obese.
(4) The blind-end segment had looped around and strangulated the ileum and 3.5 m of the jejunum.
(5) In the ligature strangulation, the reactions of histamine exclusively demonstrated in the Weibel-Palade bodies of the splenic central arterial endothelial cells.
(6) Strangulated abdominal hernias were operated in 654 patients, 40 of them died (6,1%).
(7) Absence of CT findings of ischemia or infarction does not rule out strangulation.
(8) The hernia was diagnosed preoperatively, but the gangrenous appendix was found in a strangulated loop of small bowel only at operation.
(9) The authors observed the endothelial cells of the pulmonary veins and the immunoreactions of histamine in the pulmonary blood vessels and measured the 3H-histamine contents of the pulmonary tissues of the guinea-pigs sacrificed by ligature strangulation.
(10) The majority of the toe and external genitalia cases were caused by hair, whereas the majority of finger strangulations were caused by thread from mittens.
(11) Histopathologically numerous dilated vascular and avascular cavities, probably caused by disturbances in the blood circulation due to the strangulating effect of Bruch's membrane, constitute the distinguishing features.
(12) Since there were no differences in postoperative complications, length of stay in hospital, period off work, or late results, and since conservative treatment entails lengthy, painful treatment in bed and a long period off work, emergency operation is recommended for all strangulated haemorrhoids.
(13) In no case the cup did loosen or had to be removed due to infections, strangulations or any local problems.
(14) In the paper, the errors in diagnosis of strangulated irreducible hernias are analysed.
(15) In both strangulation type and soy-beans type which had been shown through myelography, Met-CT could clearly demonstrate the subarachnoid space, and several structures around the lumbar spinal canal could be clearly identified.
(16) It is suggested that these thickened tubular walls suppress spermatogenesis by a nutritional disturbance, and the strangulations of infertile tubules interfere with sperm transport by tubular blockage or germinal disorganization and interrupted contractions of the tubules.
(17) A mechanism is proposed to explain this phenomenon by drawing analogies with neonatal intraventricular haemorrhage and the pathological findings in strangulation.
(18) Paraoesophageal hernias should be surgically treated due to their tendency towards strangulation and incarceration.
(19) The gut proved to be strangulated in 53 cases, irreversibly in 16 and reversibly in 37, while 75 patients had simple obstruction (12, 29 and 59%).
(20) The mode of accident was traffic accident (252), fall (48), fire arms (4), knife wounds (7), hanging or strangulation (9), others (2).