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Перевод: constrict
[глагол] стягивать; сжимать; сокращать; сужать
Тезаурус:
- To those who see China in primarily economic terms, the "golden goose" argument comes most easily: that its government would never be so foolish as to constrict or repress Hong Kong, the tiny territory which has proved such a powerful catalyst for the growth of its hinterland.
- If you have burnt your mouth, suck ice in order to stop any swelling occurring that may constrict your airway.
- Proximity of the viewed scene also affects the cat's pupils: the closer an object is, the more it has to constrict them; with more distant objects it expands them a little.
- He's already lost the sight of his left eye because cocaine starved the retina of blood, and he's damn lucky not to be totally blind, or even dead, because the next time it could constrict the arteries of his heart or block the blood from reaching his brain.
- A study reported by Hilton (1987) starts by providing references to show how excessive noise can provoke detrimental physiological responses - it can startle; damage hearing; stimulate epinephrine production; induce sensory disturbance; constrict peripheral and coronary arteries; reduce digestive secretions; and slow gastrointestinal motility.
- Ice A pack of ice applied to the site of the injury is cooling and will cause the blood to constrict.
- Emily felt tears constrict her throat.
- Interestingly, there is a single "command" neurone which can cause an increased supply of blood to the body, by stimulating the two accelerating neurones, and inhibiting the neurones which slow down the heart, and also those that constrict the blood-vessels.
- Novello, who had initially developed The Rat for Brunel, was to join with Cutts' assistant, Alfred Hitchcock, in demonstrating that adapted stageplays didn't need to constrict cinematic invention as long as script and direction were entrusted to someone who could convey ideas in visual terms.
- Studies to determine the effects of increased cardiac output on uterine bloodflow are ethically difficult and not performed, but (Barton et al , 1974) showed that in pregnant sheep the uterine vessels constrict in response to circulating norepinephrine and epinephrine, while animal studies have shown that plasma catecholamines increase during exercise in response to the intensity and duration of the exercise.
- Unlike more primitive snakes such as pythons and boas, which constrict and suffocate their prey, these more "advanced" species subdue or kill their victims by injecting them with venom.
- Ties should be inspected regularly and renewed annually, so as not to constrict the stem.
- But a film like When the Devil Drives (1907), in which a train is taken over by the devil and taken at great speed under the sea and into the sky, shows that length did not necessarily constrict imagination, while The Airship Destroyer (1909), with its combination of romance and action in the story of an inventor who develops a missile that will destroy an airship, shows a filmmaker drawing material from contemporary anxieties about aerial combat.
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