stran|gu|late

stran|gu|late
stran|gu|late «STRANG gyuh layt», verb, -lat|ed, -lat|ing.
–v.t.
1. Medicine. to constrict or compress so as to stop the circulation in, or hinder the action of: »

The danger of abdominal hernia is that the abdominal muscles may contract, strangulating…the part of the bowel that protrudes (Hyman S. Rubinstein).

2. to strangle; choke.
–v.i.
Medicine. to become strangulated.
[< Latin strangulāre (with English -ate1)]

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