| NOUN | state | stenosis, stricture | abnormal narrowing of a bodily canal or passageway |
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| Meaning | Abnormal narrowing of a bodily canal or passageway. | |
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| Synonym | stricture | |
| Narrower | aortic stenosis | Abnormal narrowing of the aortic valve |
| enterostenosis | Abnormal narrowing of the intestine | |
| laryngostenosis | Abnormal narrowing of the larynx | |
| mitral stenosis, mitral valve stenosis | Obstruction or narrowing of the mitral valve (as by scarring from rheumatic fever) | |
| pulmonary stenosis | Abnormal narrowing of the opening into the pulmonary artery from the right ventricle | |
| pyloric stenosis | narrowing of the pyloric sphincter that blocks the passage of food from the stomach into the duodenum | |
| rhinostenosis | narrowing of the passages in the nasal cavities | |
| ureterostenosis | stenosis of the ureter | |
| Broader | pathology | Any deviation from a healthy or normal / normal condition |
| Spanish | estegnosis, estenosis | |
| Catalan | estenosi | |
| Adjectives | stenotic | abnormally constricted body canal or passage |
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