To compress or constrict tightly; to make narrower or more confined.
From coarct + -ate (verb suffix), from Latin coarctatus. Variant form of coarct used in medical and anatomical contexts.
This word describes the precise mechanism of how asthma constricts airways or how blood vessels narrow in heart disease—medicine needed an exact term for this deadly tightening.
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