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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 con·stric·tion /-ˈstrɪkʃən/
 壓縮,收縮,緊壓的感覺

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 con·stric·tion /-ˈstrɪkʃən/ 名詞
 縊痕

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Con·stric·tion n.
 1. The act of constricting by means of some inherent power or by movement or change in the thing itself, as distinguished from compression.
 2. The state of being constricted; the point where a thing is constricted; a narrowing or binding.
    A constriction of the parts inservient to speech.   --Grew.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 constriction
      n 1: a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel [syn: bottleneck,
            chokepoint]
      2: tight or narrow compression [syn: coarctation]
      3: a feeling of tightness in some part of the body; "he felt a
         constriction in her chest"; "emotion caused a constriction
         of his throat"
      4: the action or process of compressing