noun.
The act or state of strangling; a sudden and violent compression of the windpipe, constriction being applied directly to the neck, either around it or in the fore part, or from within the esophagus, so as to prevent the passage of air, and thereby suspend respiration and, if the constriction is prolonged, destroy life.
noun.
In pathology, the state of a part too closely constricted, as the intestine in strangulated hernia.
noun.
Excessive or abnormal constriction of any kind.