Word: constrictiveness
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...waterboarding-in which a detainee is strapped down and made to believe he may be drowned-may have been discussed. Gonzales allowed that he could not quite recall specifically how he felt about waterboarding, but he did generally support the thrust of the Justice Department's decision to severely constrict the definition of torture. Senator Herbert Kohl of Wisconsin elicited Gonzales' acknowledgment that the new Bush Administration policy on torture had "migrated" to the CIA and Pentagon and from there to Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. Not one of the Senators bothered to ask whether the President had been informed...
...body to excrete water and lower the load in the vessels, are the workhorse drugs with the longest history and the most direct effect. Diuretics work best in older patients, since younger metabolisms sense the change in fluid volume and react by activating the renin-angiotensin system to constrict vessels and boost pressure, negating the effects of the drugs...
...other categories of medications include beta-blockers, which moderate heart rate and the angiotensin system; calcium-channel blockers, which obstruct the tiny ducts in cells through which calcium ions must pass to constrict blood vessels; ACE inhibitors, which reduce the production of angiotensin and thus reduce constriction; and angiotensin-receptor blockers, which allow the protein to be produced but prevent some of it from being taken up by the cells. All four of these have the same goal--to unclench the tensed circulatory system--and they are often prescribed in combination...
...Beta blockers and ACE inhibitors. Doctors are investigating whether blood-pressure medications control hypertension in part by lowering levels of certain inflammatory factors that constrict the blood vessels...
...study as a way of expanding our views, and self-study that threatens to swallow us (the kind of writing that my blockmate had ridiculed). That is, if I am going to spend my time stringing words together, I hope that these strings become the ties that bind, not constrict...