coarctation

名词 n.
/ˌkəʊ.ɑːkˈteɪ.ʃən/|/ˌkəʊ.ɑːkˈteɪ.ʃn̩/    /ˌkoʊˌɑɹkˈteɪ.ʃən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A congenital stricture or narrowing of a short section of the aorta. countable,uncountable
  2. A confinement to a narrow space. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — So likewise the greatest winds, if they have no coarctation, or blow not hollow, give an interior sound
  3. A pressure; that which presses. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — the vessel will notwithstanding continue still to beat below or beyond the coarctation

词形变化

coarctations plural

词汇关系

衍生词

词源

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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