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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin coarctātiō (“drawing or crowding together”, noun), from coarctō (“to press together, compress, contract, confine”) + -ātiō (“-ation”, action noun suffix); equivalent to coarctate + -ion.
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coarctation (countable and uncountable, plural coarctations)
- (pathology) A congenital stricture or narrowing of a short section of the aorta.
- Synonym: stenosis
- (obsolete) A confinement to a narrow space.
1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “II. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. , London: William Rawley ; rinted by J H for William Lee , →OCLC:So likewise the greatest winds, if they have no coarctation, or blow not hollow, give an interior sound
- (obsolete) A pressure; that which presses.
1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. , London: Samuel Smith, , →OCLC:the vessel will notwithstanding continue still to beat below or beyond the coarctation
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Noun
coarctation f (plural coarctations)
- coarctation
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