Constriction is the medical term meaning normal, physiologic narrowing. Stenosis is the medical term meaning abnormal narrowing.
Mitral stenosis is the medical term meaning narrowing of the mitral valve.
Stenosis means narrowing and proximal means closer to the body.
Narrowing of the blood vessels is called atherosclerosis.
Stenosis means narrowing or stricture. Examples: spinal stenosis, coronary artery stenosis, ureteral stenosis.
Gastrostenesis
Bronchostenosis is abnormal narrowing of the bronchus.
Bronchospasm
urethrostenosis The -stenosis word ending is related to stenographer which literally means "one who writes narrowly". Stenographers write in shorthand or a constricted way.
Pylororrhaphy is the medical term meaning suture of the pyloric valve. A related term, pyloroplasty, means surgical repair of the pyloric valve.
The medical suffix for abnormal narrowing is "-stenosis."
Vasoconstriction is normal physiologic narrowing, and angiostenosis is abnormal narrowing.Stenosis
Vasoconstriction is the normal narrowing of a blood vessel.