ppl. a. [f. prec.]
1. Drawn together by constriction; narrowed, straitened.
1753. N. Torriano, Gangr. Sore Throat, Pref. 12. Those of a lax, more than those of a constricted State of Fibres.
1872. T. G. Thomas, Dis. Women, 36. He … advises the dilatation of a constricted cervix by means of a tin tube.
2. Nat. Hist. Markedly narrowed at some part, as if by mechanical constriction.
1826. Kirby & Sp., Entomol., IV. xxxvii. 14. In the caterpillar of the Goat Moth the first is oblong and constricted in the middle.
1870. Hooker, Stud. Flora, 98. Ornithopus perpusillus … pod much constricted between the seeds.
