noun

• (usually in the plural) A rule restricting behaviour or action.
  "To his eyes it had no attraction; it savoured of simony, and was likely to bring down upon him harder and more deserved strictures than any he had yet received: he positively declined to become vicar of Puddingdale under any circumstances."
• (medicine) Abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body.
  "Even in the brief moment of his entrance into the magnificence of Anthony Harding's home he had felt a strange little stricture of the throat—a choking, half-suffocating sensation."
• (obsolete) Strictness.
  "a man of stricture and firm abstinence"
• (obsolete) A stroke; a glance; a touch.
  "But whatever may be said of other matters , certainly the first draughts and strictures of Natural Religion and Morality are naturally in the Mind"