arctation

From Latin arctus (“shut in, narrow”), past participle of arcere (“to shut in”). Compare French arctation.

arctation (countable and uncountable, plural arctations)

1. (obsolete, medicine) Stenosis.

• coarctation

• “arctation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.