MEDICAL PHYSIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: –stemosis. Suffix that means narrowing or tightening.

Detailed explanation-2: -What is the suffix meaning narrowing, stricture? stenosis.

Detailed explanation-3: -to become less wide or to make something less wide: The road narrows after the bridge. He narrowed his eyes in suspicion. They have narrowed the focus of the investigation, to concentrate on younger adults.

Detailed explanation-4: -Etymology. Borrowed from Latin coarctātiō (“drawing or crowding together”, noun), from coarctō (“to press together, compress, contract, confine”) +-ātiō (“-ation”, action noun suffix); equivalent to coarctate +-ion.