constriction

Noun

• the action or process of compressing

• a tight feeling in some part of the body
  • he felt a constriction in her chest
    
  • she felt an alarming tightness in her chest
    
  • emotion caused a constriction of his throat
    

• tight or narrow compression

• a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  tightness , coarctation , bottleneck , chokepoint