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were constricted

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To narrow, especially by applying pressure.

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They found that below an ambient temperature of about 60 degrees Fahrenheit, the bill was relatively cold, indicating that the blood vessels to it were constricted.

He'd been revived with oxygen — he hadn't needed Narcan — but as he sat in the ambulance his eyes were only partly opened, and his pupils, when I could catch a glimpse of them, were constricted to pinpoints.

The players were anonymous by top pick standards, but their faces all looked familiar in one way: they were constricted as the ambiguity of the last few months stretched to the final moments before their names were called.

The organs' airways were constricted, and molecular analysis showed abnormally high levels of fibronectin and collagen which would stiffen the lung tissue and also high levels of receptor molecules for nicotine.

Water circulation and mixing were not as great as they are today, because most of the oceans (e.g., the developing North Atlantic) were constricted, and the temperature differences between the poles and the Equator were minimal.

In addition, the radial arteries were constricted during migraine attacks [57].

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They were constricting.

And last year the supply was constricted.

Even in the United States, companies say they are constricted.

But later I noticed that my left pupil was constricted.

The policy the administration publicly describes is constricted and implausible.

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