stricture : Idioms & Phrases
Organic stricture
(Med.) , a contraction of one of the natural passages of the body produced by structural changes in its walls, as distinguished from a spasmodic stricture, which is due to muscular contraction.
Webster 1913
Spasmodic stricture
- a stricture caused by muscular spasm without structural change. See Organic stricture, under
Organic .
