Dean Potter

Often in normal life I'm just constricted to what I see, maybe, and hear. But when I climb and when I'm out in the wild, other senses come to me and Delicate Arch was a free solo climb, which means I didn't have any protection and often, when I put myself in these situations, it brings out this heightened awareness which I crave so much.

American Athlete

Julia Child

Because of media hype and woefully inadequate information, too many people nowadays are deathly afraid of their food, and what does fear of food do to the digestive system? I am sure that an unhappy or suspicious stomach, constricted and uneasy with worry, cannot digest properly.

American Chef

Carlton Cuse

One of the things that's, I think, hard in television is that there's a certain sameness to a lot of television because you're working in a very constricted box, and the box is defined by the amount of money you have to spend and the amount of time you have to get ready.

American Producer

Martin Rees

Not even the most secular among us can fail to be uplifted by Christianity's architectural legacy - the great cathedrals. These immense and glorious buildings were erected in an era of constricted horizons, both in time and in space.

British Scientist

Leonardo DiCaprio

I don't ask other actors questions. I think that's too intrusive. I just watch. I don't want to be constricted to an idea of what acting is by anyone else. I want to take my own education.

American Actor

William Scott

I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid.

British Artist

Lou Reed

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.

American Musician

Morgan Neville

When you come from a place and an identity, you can feel constricted and have to get away. But then you realise how much a part of you it is.

Bono

God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm. I love that.

Irish Singer

Travis Scott

I feel like everyone just gets constricted by their parents or, just, life.

American Rapper

Refers to actual space becoming smaller, not just a feeling.

Physical Restriction

Use when there's no direct person causing the narrowing.

No Human Action

It can refer to resources or options being reduced.

Beyond Physical

Often implies a disadvantage or something undesirable.

Negative Connotation

Used for clinical anatomy and physiology contexts.

Medical Specificity

Often detected by a professional through examination.

Observational

In medicine, it can be normal, like pupils constricting in bright light.

Not Always Negative

 the previously constricted blood vessels now expand in a process called vasodilation. About two to three days after the wound, the proliferative stage occurs, when fibroblast cells begin to enter the wound. In the process of collagen deposition, they produce a fibrous protein called collagen in the wound site,

How a wound heals itself...

 cause burning, stabbing bursts of pain behind one eye, leading to a red eye, constricted pupil, and drooping eyelid. What can be done about these conditions, which dramatically affect many people’s quality of life? Tension headaches and most secondary cases

What causes headaches? -...

 But mechanical ventilators take over the process, getting oxygen into the body when the respiratory system cannot. These machines can bypass constricted airways, and deliver highly oxygenated air to help damaged lungs diffuse more oxygen.

How do ventilators work?...

 I don't know if it's truly possible to express in words what it's like not to be able to communicate. Your personality appears to vanish into a heavy fog and all of your emotions and desires are constricted, stifled and muted within you.

How My Mind Came Back to...

 take a look at this rats attempt to get to the other side of the tiny hole if a rat can fit its head through an opening the rest is easy because of its internal acrobatics when squeezing through a constricted space the pressure causes

See How Easily a Rat Can...

 using a liquid mist or fine powder to treat the problem at its source. They come in two forms. There are reliever medications, which treat symptoms immediately and contain beta-agonists. Beta-agonists relax constricted muslces,

How does asthma work? -...

 so that I wouldn't be judged or treated differently. I was so constricted by my belief that businesses value maleness more. And it made me afraid to be a woman, which meant I hid a massive part of who I was from everyone.

How vulnerability makes...

 resulted in an unmitigated physiological response, in which blood vessels constricted to such a degree that blood volume acutely dropped, blood pressure plummeted, the heart acutely weakened,

How your emotions change...

 let's listen to two clips the first has a constricted wrist the sound is constricted and there's not much distinction between the melody and the rest of the notes then we'll listen to

A lesson in classical...

 The work was riveting. So I opted outside of my usual guardedness. I stopped hiding my opinions. I worried less about those constricted norms of how I should express myself.

Constricted

Narrowed, made smaller in size.

Often appears as...

Limited, restricted.

Often appears as...

When a part of the body becomes narrower.

Often appears as...

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Physical Restriction

No Human Action

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