Constrictions [noun]

Slight constrictions, not perceptible in views of the embryo as a transparent object, mark off three vesicles in the brain.

It is divided by very slight constrictions into three lobes, the posterior of which is considerably the largest.

The annular constrictions occur at short intervals, giving it the appearance of being jointed.

Annular constrictions at short intervals give the branches the appearance of strings of beads.

These divisions seem on the exterior like constrictions, and give the body the appearance of a series of rings.

Extreme sensitiveness and readiness to take offence are the unavoidable consequences of such highly developed self-constrictions.

It very soon changes its character by the appearance of a number of constrictions at intervals running along its whole length.

The head, the thorax, and the abdomen are very distinct in the fly, being separated from each other by well-marked constrictions.

Pod oblong, flattened, often knotty by constrictions between the seeds.

I have been foolish, but it was not in despising the constrictions and falsity of the academic world.