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Irritable stricture
A stricture causing pain when an instrument is passed.
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Impermeable stricture
A stricture closing the lumen of a tube or canal so that an instrument cannot pass through it.
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Functional stricture
A stricture caused by muscular spasm.
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Cicatricial stricture
A stricture resulting from a scar or wound.
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Bridle stricture
A stricture caused by a band of membrane stretched across a tube, partially occluding it.
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Anorectal stricture
A fibrotic narrowing of the anorectal canal.
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Annular stricture
Ring like obstruction of an organ involving the entire circumference of a structure.
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Striate body
The corpus striatum, composed of the cordate and lenticular nuclei of the brain.
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Striae terminalis
A band of fibers in the roof of the inferior horn running to the floor of the body of the lateral ventricle.
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Striae of Retzius
The benign incremental lines seen periodically in the calcified enamel of teeth.
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