Strangulation

State of a part too closely constricted Thus we say that there is strangulation of an intestinal hernia, when the opening that gives passage to the portion of the protruded intestine seriously intercepts the continuity of the digestive canal In Legal Medicine, it means the forcible obstruction of the air-passages, by a ligature or by the hand, for criminal purposes See suffocation

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