Sentence examples for became obstructed from inspiring English sources

An autopsy found he choked to death after his airway became obstructed by cockroach parts.

This summer, accident investigators said the pilots were not sufficiently trained to manually control the jet in the event of a high-altitude stall, which occurred after an air-speed gauge became obstructed by ice.

The inventors had observed that the valve became obstructed by cerebral debris, which was introduced through the slits of the ventricular catheter when the catheter was inserted through the brain into the ventricles.

Mr. Clinton, 63, who has a history of heart trouble, had two stents inserted into one of his coronary arteries after a bypass graft from an operation nearly six years ago became obstructed, Dr. Allan Schwartz, the head of cardiology at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia York-Presbyterian/Columbiaghospitalnewsaidnference ouThursdaye hospital inighthington Heights.

During the delivery, Hamida's labor became obstructed and caused her to endure three days of excruciating pain.

Girls' abilities to pursue an education or a career, she noted, became obstructed [ 11].

For example, scarring of the intestines can cause the tubular structure to become obstructed through narrowing.

In time the walls tend to degenerate, and the vessels either dilate, with the danger of bursting, or become obstructed.

In this condition the abnormal venous channel draining to the right side of the heart may become obstructed.

The air passageways located in the neck (the windpipe and the larynx, or voice box) can become obstructed, causing suffocation.

One is sleep apnea, in which breathing becomes obstructed during sleep, causing the child to wake up frequently.