RESTRICTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does restricting mean? 

• RESTRICTING (adjective)
  The adjective RESTRICTING has 1 sense:

1. restricting the scope or freedom of action

  Familiarity information: RESTRICTING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESTRICTING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Restricting the scope or freedom of action

Synonyms:

confining; constraining; constrictive; limiting; restricting

Similar:

restrictive (serving to restrict)

 Context examples 

At the injection site, chloroprocaine hydrochloride acts by inhibiting sodium influx through binding to specific membrane sodium ion channels in the neuronal cell membranes, restricting sodium permeability, and blocking nerve impulse conduction.

(Chloroprocaine Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

Atherogenic heart disease involves the formation of plaques in arterial walls that narrow the arterial passage, restricting blood flow and increasing the risk of occlusion of blood flow by a myocardial infarction.

(LDL Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

A measuring process with shielding septa restricting detectors' coincidences.

(PET Scanner 2D Mode, NCI Thesaurus)

The scientists determined that restricting these 2 sulfur-containing amino acids activated a metabolic pathway called the transsulfuration pathway, which resulted in increased production of the gas hydrogen sulfide (H2S).

(Pathways Underlying the Benefits of Calorie Restriction, NIH)

A measuring process without any shielding septa restricting detectors' coincidences.

(PET Scanner 3D Mode, NCI Thesaurus)

In a recent study, restricting dietary fat led to body fat loss at a rate 68 percent higher than cutting the same number of carbohydrate calories when adults with obesity ate strictly controlled diets.

(Study finds cutting dietary fat reduces body fat more than cutting carbs, NIH)

A disorder characterized by a thickened and fibrotic pericardial sac; these fibrotic changes impede normal myocardial function by restricting myocardial muscle action.

(Constrictive Pericarditis, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

There is no current treatment for hardening of the arteries, which is caused by build-up of bone-like calcium deposits, stiffening the arteries and restricting blood flow to organs and tissues.

(Cause of hardening of the arteries – and potential treatment – identified, University of Cambridge)

The Lowood constraint still clings to you somewhat; controlling your features, muffling your voice, and restricting your limbs; and you fear in the presence of a man and a brother—or father, or master, or what you will—to smile too gaily, speak too freely, or move too quickly: but, in time, I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you; and then your looks and movements will have more vivacity and variety than they dare offer now.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The mechanism for restricting the passage of charged ions and large molecules from the blood into the brain and central nervous system (CNS) by employing a unique capillary bed with tight junctions between the endothelial cells.

(Blood-brain barrier, NCI Thesaurus)