Synonym: blockage, impediment, impedimenta, obstacle, obstructer, obstructor. Similar words: instruction, destruction, construction, instructional, constructing, instruct, construct, structure. Meaning: [əb'strʌkʃn] n. 1. any structure that makes progress difficult 2. the state or condition of being obstructed 3. something immaterial that stands in the way and must be circumvented or surmounted 4. the act of obstructing 5. getting in someone's way.
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31. At age 20 she became pregnant and the pregnancy was complicated by episodes of small and large bowel obstruction.
32. The picket was charged with obstruction of the highway although the whole incident lasted for not more than nine minutes.
33. Rooker's survey shows that even the most diligent of officers meet with obstruction.
34. Also, any obstruction such as high ground between you and the transmitter can cause loss of reception.
35. He had a deep contempt for the bureaucratic mind and took particular delight in circumventing bureaucratic obstruction.
36. Watery nasal discharge and obstruction goes from left to right nostril.
37. Seven patients had one or more episodes of partial or complete large bowel obstruction and four others were constipated.
38. His father managed to clear the obstruction by slapping Christopher on his back 7 times.
39. The second fact is that there has been a great deal of obfuscation and obstruction from the United States in the negotiations.
40. The snake began to choke as it tried to swallow his arm and simultaneously dislodge the obstruction from its windpipe.
41. Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Dean and others served prison sentences for conspiracy and obstruction of justice.
42. This offence carries a power of arrest for a constable who witnesses the obstruction.
43. Acute hydrocephalus due to sudden obstruction of cerebrospinal fluid pathways by an intracranial mass also causes sudden headache.
44. Small bowel obstruction continues to occur after this operation despite increasing experience with the procedure.
45. A J Trevett and colleagues reported on two patients who developed acute respiratory obstruction from swallowing live fish.
46. She gave a two month history of symptoms typical of intermittent small bowel obstruction before requiring a limited right hemicolectomy.
47. She continued to experience abdominal pain and at age 18 was admitted with absolute constipation and intestinal obstruction.
48. The extradition attempts on charges of obstruction of justice failed primarily because of allegations of the torture of witnesses.
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49. They're for obstruction not completely covered by water, aren't they?
50. It can become conduct likely to cause a breach of the peace, or obstruction, or even assault.
51. They found an obstruction in one of the major arteries leading to the brain.
52. Only four of the 42 patients with benign strictures had constipation and none had evidence of intestinal obstruction.
53. It was held by the Divisional Court that his appeal against conviction of the obstruction offence must be allowed.
54. Such obstruction to the flow of bile will cause the conjugated bilirubin to be regurgitated into the sinusoids and the general circulation.
55. Kane could be charged with obstruction of justice for refusing to cooperate with authorities.
56. Obstruction of the cystic duct and cholecystitis are regarded as absolute contraindications for gall stone lithotripsy.
57. It involved another Down's baby, a girl called Alexandra, who required a life-saving operation to remove an intestinal obstruction.
58. Whether the biliary obstruction caused by sclerosing cholangitis was self limiting or brought into remission by steroid treatment is unclear.
59. In the other 14 patients, barium studies of the small and large intestine did not show any mechanical obstruction.
60. The relative inaccessibility of Management, the nuisance of inconsiderate car parking and consequent obstruction by Non-Residents.
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