Emily Dickinson Lexicon

STRAN-GU-LA'TION, n. [Fr. from L. strangulatio.]

1. The act of strangling; the act of destroying life by stopping respiration; suffocation. – Wiseman.
2. That kind of suffocation which is common to women in hysterics; also, the compression of the intestines in hernia, so as to suspend the circulation in the part. – Cyc.