Tending to constrict, contract, or compress.

adjective. Serving or tending to bind or constrict.

adjective. That constricts, or is accompanied by constriction

adjective. (of circumstances) tending to constrict freedom

adjective. restricting the scope or freedom of action

"Many forms and degrees of failure were defined, and their responses to treatment measured: limited or fixed cardiac output, not responding to exercise; left ventricular failure with pulmonary hypertension; right ventricular failure with systemic venous hypertension; the congestive state with high blood flow, and with low; very low cardiac output without congestion; the dynamic effects of cardiac arrhythmias; the circulation in constrictive pericarditis31, 32."