Similar words: obstructing, obstruction, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, destructive, instructive, obstruct, constructive, destructively. Meaning: [əb'strʌktɪv] 
adj. preventing movement.
adj. preventing movement. 
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(1) She's being downright difficult and obstructive.
(2) Mr Smith was obstructive and refused to follow correct procedure.
(3) Respirations a. obstructive airway disease b. Cheyne-Stokes respirations 4.
(4) In the cases of chronic obstructive lung disease, if a young person gives up smoking, their lung function will improve.
(5) Obstructive symptoms then resulted in a further small bowel resection but he did not achieve remission despite prednisolone.
(6) Such premature publicity could make her positively obstructive instead of merely difficult.
(7) Underlying obstructive coronary artery disease was not excluded by angiography.
(8) In most cases, the alkaline phosphatase value in obstructive jaundice is higher than in intrahepatic jaundice.
(9) Local councillors can be quite obstructive to new ventures by farmers.
(10) It was ludicrously swollen, unnecessarily big and wholly obstructive to anything that looked like a new idea.
(11) The socialists were accused of being obstructive and delaying the decision-making process.
(12) The duration of obstructive symptoms varied widely with a range from a few weeks to several years.
(13) Patients presenting with obstructive jaundice caused by bile duct stricture may be managed by either surgery or stenting.
(14) Underlying structural cardiac abnormalities, most commonly obstructive coronary disease, are present in the vast majority of patients.
(15) To adopt a militant, uncooperative or obstructive approach may gain publicity, not all of which will be good.
(16) Chronic obstructive pulmonary emphysema; Elderly; Spontaneous pneumothorax.
(17) No one understands why the government takes such an obstructive policy.
(18) Of course she can do it. She's just being deliberately obstructive.
(19) We'd have made a decision by now if Jean hadn't been so obstructive.
(20) He doesn't really have an alternative suggestion; he's just being deliberately obstructive.
(21) Along with others, Gassendi obviously felt that this whole elaborate conceptual structure was obstructive to, rather than productive of(sentencedict.com/obstructive.html), knowledge.
(22) Elevated alkaline phosphatase is associated with liver disease and with both obstructive jaundice and intrahepatic jaundice.
(23) Eleven of the 17 patients with malignant strictures presented with obstructive symptoms.
(24) The pace of ideation is for the most part so great that a more formal procedure of idea-handling would be obstructive and pointless.
(25) It takes only an hour to drive from Gaza to Jerusalem, if you don't have to endure obstructive border guards.
(26) But snoring loudly and habitually can be an indication of a potentially life-threatening breathing disturbance known as obstructive sleep apnea syndrome.
(27) Mrs Thatcher was still highly visible at international summits, but often now as an obstructive, quarrelsome figure.
(28) Since then these stents have been used in bile ducts for malignant obstructive jaundice and are placed either percutaneously or endoscopically.
(29) Thirteen had an acute or subacute self limiting condition, but the remaining three had several years history of recurrent obstructive symptoms.
(30) Apparently he has a history of COADs - chronic obstructive airways disease.
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