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Jul 9, 2010
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Bronchial stenosis
CT scan: Le Guen, et al.
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PRONUNCIATION:
(sti-NO-sis)
 , plural stenoses
MEANING:
noun: A narrowing of a passage, vessel, or an opening in the body.
ETYMOLOGY:
From steno- (narrow, small) + -osis (condition). From Greek stenosis
(a narrowing), from stenoun (to narrow), from stenos (narrow).
USAGE:
"[The device] is placed onto a patient's chest and a microphone picks up
coronary sounds associated with stenosis, in which a patient's arteries
are clogged with plaque blocking blood flow to the heart."Wendy Lee; New Phone Apps Aim to Boost; Minneapolis Star Tribune; Jun 12, 2010. See more usage examples of stenosis in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else. -John Updike, writer (1932-2009)
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