stenosis
pronunciation
How to pronounce stenosis in British English:
UK [stɪ'nəʊsɪs]
How to pronounce stenosis in American English:
US [stɪ'noʊsɪs]
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- Noun:
- abnormal narrowing of a bodily canal or passageway
Word Origin
- stenosis (n.)
- 1846, medical Latin, from Greek stenosis "narrowing," from stenoun "to narrow," from stenos "narrow" (see steno-) + -osis.
Example
- 1. Meatal stenosis : many circumcised boys and men suffer from meatal stenosis .
- 2. Two cases of congenital gastric antrum diaphragmatic typical stenosis .
- 3. Veterans administration asymptomatic carotid stenosis trial .
- 4. The intraoperative quantification of aortic stenosis .
- 5. The relationship between pulmonary venous flow and left atrial pressure in mitral stenosis .