Look up strangling in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Strangling or strangulation is compression of the neck that may lead to unconsciousness or death...

Strangulation in the context of domestic violence is a potentially lethal form of assault. Unconsciousness may occur within seconds of strangulation and...

afflicts the penis. Common injuries include fracture, avulsion injury, strangulation, entrapment, and amputation. Penetrating and blunt traumas combined...

of sexual arousal. With a partner (or alone), the act often involves strangulation. The term autoerotic asphyxiation is used when the act is done by a...

in execution which instigate death either by cervical fracture or by strangulation. The short drop is a method of hanging in which the condemned prisoner...

Bowel infarction or gangrenous bowel represents an irreversible injury to the intestine resulting from insufficient blood flow. It is considered a medical...

On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a 46-year-old black American man, was murdered in Minneapolis by Derek Chauvin, a 44-year-old white police officer. Floyd...

in North Houston, and determined she had been raped and murdered by strangulation. Texas prosecutors have indicted the suspects on charges of capital...

petechiae may be used by police investigators in determining whether strangulation has been part of an attack. The documentation of the presence of petechiae...

smothering, choking, positional asphyxia, traumatic asphyxia, wedging, strangulation and drowning. Sauvageau and Boghossian propose in 2010 that mechanical...