ppl. a. [f. STRANGULATE v. + -ED1.]
1. Path. and Surg. Of a vessel, an intestine: Congested by constriction and the arrest of circulation. Strangulated hernia: a hernia so constricted that the circulation in the protruded part is arrested.
1771. J. S., trans. Le Dran’s Observ. Surg. (ed. 4), 184. The strangulated Portion of the Intestine was no larger than a Cherry.
1788. H. Helsham, in Med. Commun., XIII. 280 (title), Sudden fatal termination of a Case of Strangulated Hernia.
1836–9. Todd’s Cycl. Anat., II. 745/1. The volume of a strangulated intestine is always increased.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VI. 342. The retinal vessels seem strangulated or constricted.
fig. 1857. Fraser’s Mag., LVI. 535. The … most pressing City improvement is the widening of this strangulated metropolitan gullet.
2. Ent. Of the head, abdomen or thorax of an insect: Constricted or greatly narrowed.
1819. G. Samouelle, Entomol. Compend., 196. Head cordiform, abruptly strangulated at its junction with the thorax.
3. Bot. Of a plant-stem: Contracted by or as if by a ligature.
1849. Balfour, Man. Bot., 639.
1856. Henslow, Bot. Terms.
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