What does «constricción» mean in Spanish?
- Constriction, narrowing.
Examples of use in Spanish: "el dátil contiene tiramina, una sustancia que provoca constricción de los vasos sanguíneos".
"sufrió una constricción de arterias cerebrales luego de comer la guindilla más picante del mundo".
- Limitation or obligation imposed on someone or something.
Examples of use in Spanish: "el comportamiento criminal aparece cuando desaparecen las constricciones éticas o morales impuestas por la sociedad".
"para el liberalismo el imperativo es una constricción al libre albedrío".
"el corsé, el aparato de constricción del cuerpo femenino, volvió a ser moda".
- Strangling property, typical of non-venomous snakes such as boas and pythons.
Examples of use in Spanish: "las boas matan a sus víctimas por constricción".
"la constricción de las pitones es muy poderosa".
- Sensation of painful tightness in the chest area.
- Narrowing of parts of a plant such as its stem or trunk.
- A process in whose favor, and due to a girdle or narrowing that forms at the apex of a hyphae, a spore becomes separated from the hyphae.
- A constraint on evolutionary change in a population; they represent limits to the action of natural selection, a mechanism of natural evolution. Developmental constraints are defined as "a limitation on phenotypic variability caused by the structure, character, composition or dynamics of the developmental system".
- Pressure exerted on a conduit to partially or totally close it.
- (anillo de constricción) Circular band that is placed at the base of the penis to maintain an erection.
- (acto de contrición) At the moment of death, by an act of constriction, of repentance of the sins committed before God, the soul can be saved from hell.
Examples of use in Spanish: "El bucle de los oscurantistas remitiría a un catecismo que contempla la constricción y el perdón".