stricture

 
Pronunciation: /ˈstrɪktʃə/

noun

  • 1a restriction on a person or activity: the strictures imposed by the British Board of Film Censors
  • 2a sternly critical or censorious remark or instruction: his strictures on their lack of civic virtue
  • 3 Medicine abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body: a colonic stricture [mass noun]: jaundice caused by bile duct stricture

Derivatives

strictured

adjective

Origin:

late Middle English (in stricture (sense 3)): from Latin strictura, from stringere 'draw tight' (see strict). Another sense of the Latin verb, 'touch lightly', gave rise to stricture (sense 2) via an earlier meaning 'incidental remark'