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noun abnormal narrowing of a bodily canal or passageway
originFrom New Latin stenōsis, from Ancient Greek στένωσις (sténōsis, “narrowing”), from στενόω (stenóō, “to confine, to contract”) + -σις (-sis, nominal suffix), equivalent to steno- + -osis.
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