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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Stran"gu*la`ted\, a.
1. (Med.) Having the circulation stopped by compression;
   attended with arrest or obstruction of circulation, caused
   by constriction or compression; as, a strangulated hernia.

2. (Bot.) Contracted at irregular intervals, if tied with a
   ligature; constricted.

{Strangulated hernia}. (Med.) See under {Hernia}.

 

 

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