strangulation
美[,stræŋɡju'leʃən]
- n. [医] 绞窄；勒杀；钳制；压缩
英英释意
- 1. the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe;
- "no evidence that the choking was done by the accused"
- 2. the condition of having respiration stopped by compression of the air passage
- 3. (pathology) constriction of a body part so as to cut off the flow of blood or other fluid;
- "strangulation of the intestine"